The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War /

An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our planet. Nations and corpor...

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Autor principal: MacDonald, Alexander C. (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1494427
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