To See Far: Conflict and Cooperation on the Space Frontier - Paperback
by Jim Van Laak
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballast BooksISBN-13:9781966786580ISBN-10:1966786581UPC:9781966786580Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Space Science, MilitaryBook Topic:Space Exploration, Aviation & SpaceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCXCNXCRDJ
To See Far: Conflict and Cooperation on the Space Frontier
"We go into space to see far."
The Cold War's half-century nuclear standoff left Jim Van Laak, a fighter pilot standing alert on the US's northern frontline, aching for a vision of a better future with the nation's great strategic rival, Russia. He did not know that two great misfortunes of his youth, a low draft number and a dangerous airplane accident, had already set him on a course to not...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballast BooksISBN-13:9781966786580ISBN-10:1966786581UPC:9781966786580Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Space Science, MilitaryBook Topic:Space Exploration, Aviation & SpaceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCXCNXCRDJ
Van Laak, Jim: - Jim Van Laak grew up in the old industrial city of Schenectady, New York. During the Apollo program of the 1960s, he became enthralled by the space program that dominated the world stage. Entranced by aviation, he got his pilot's license at age seventeen and soon thereafter survived a mechanical failure-induced accident. Inspired to learn what he could about these machines, he...
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