Cosmic!
Tim Radford: Yuri and the Astronauts, 5 March 1998
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
by James Harford.
Wiley, 392 pp., £24.95, June 1997,0 471 14853 9 Show More
by James Harford.
Wiley, 392 pp., £24.95, June 1997,
Countdown: A History of Space Flight
by T.A. Heppenheimer.
Wiley, 398 pp., £24.95, June 1997,0 471 14439 8 Show More
by T.A. Heppenheimer.
Wiley, 398 pp., £24.95, June 1997,
Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
by Helen Gavaghan.
Copernicus, 300 pp., £15, December 1997,0 387 94914 3 Show More
by Helen Gavaghan.
Copernicus, 300 pp., £15, December 1997,
Space and the American Imagination
by Howard McCurdy.
Smithsonian, 294 pp., £19.95, November 1997,1 56098 764 2 Show More
by Howard McCurdy.
Smithsonian, 294 pp., £19.95, November 1997,
“... of gravity’s well, and make it into freefall in orbit, a rocket has to get up to a speed of more than five miles per second – ‘escape velocity’, it’s called. Another of Newton’s laws of motion says that a body subjected to a constant force constantly accelerates. To remain upwardly mobile, a rocket carries an ... ”
