The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks

A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-92152-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: Space Exploration

The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time. Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United States.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavallaro, Umberto

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Sputnik Triggers the USSR-USA Space Race.- Chapter 2: Man in Space.- Chapter 3: Astronaut Sits in the Driver's Seat.- Chapter 4: Two Tragedies Block the Space Race.- Chapter 5: The Final Leap.- Chapter 6: Apollo 11 - Astrophilatelic Aspects.- References.- Glossary.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Umberto Cavallaro is founder and current president of AS.IT.AF (Italian Astrophilately Society), as well as the editor of its quarterly journal, AD*ASTRA. His professional activity led him to cooperate for many years with ESA, the European Space Agency. Author of “Propaganda e Pragmatismo in gara per la conquista della Luna” (“Propaganda & Pragmatism in race to the Moon” Impremix, Torino 2011) and “Donne nello Spazio” (“Women inSpace”, Mursia, Milano 2015), he has translated into Italian several publications, including “The All-American Boys” by Walter Cunningham, an Apollo VII astronaut.