Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space
暫譯: 紅月：蘇聯的太空征服

Capaccioli, Massimo

Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-09
  • 售價: $1,460
  • 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $1,430
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 202
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031547594
  • ISBN-13: 9783031547591
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics

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The book is about the "space race", starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of space began as a by-product of an exquisitely military project, the rapid, and efficient delivery of explosives, conventional and then nuclear, over great distances into enemy territory. It happened at the turn of World War II, first with the V2s, the Wunderwaffen that von Braun had created for his Führer, and, after the surrender of Germany and Japan, with the intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians and Americans built to serve as cabs for atomic bombs. Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon. Under the constant guidance of Sergei Korolev, the mysterious "chief designer", the Soviets got off to a surprise start and stayed in the lead until almost the end, with the Sputniks, the orbital flights of Gagarin and Tereshkova, the first spacewalk, and the unmanned soft landings on the Moon and Venus, only to be caught up and overtaken by the Americans at the very edge. An adventure that lasted a total of twelve years, marked by brilliant and courageous men, by astute and far-sighted politicians, by patriotism and ambition, and, as always, regulated by luck, which profoundly affected our world and the design of its future.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書講述的是「太空競賽」，從最早的航天步驟到阿姆斯壯和奧爾德林登陸月球的歷程。太空的征服最初是作為一個精緻的軍事計畫的副產品，旨在快速且有效地將常規和核武器的爆炸物運送到敵方領土的遙遠距離。這一切發生在第二次世界大戰的轉折點，首先是由馮·布勞恩為他的元首創造的V2火箭，這些被稱為奇蹟武器（Wunderwaffen），在德國和日本投降後，則是蘇聯和美國建造的洲際彈道導彈，作為原子彈的運載工具。在對核大屠殺的恐懼約束下，這兩個曾經暫時分割世界政府的強權，將危險的武力對抗轉變為一場不尋常的攀登天空的競賽：一場以人類登陸月球為終點的階段賽。在神秘的「首席設計師」謝爾蓋·科羅廖夫的持續指導下，蘇聯意外地取得了領先，並在幾乎整個過程中保持領先，發射了斯普特尼克（Sputnik）、加加林和泰瑞什科娃的軌道飛行、第一次太空行走，以及無人軟著陸月球和金星，直到最後一刻被美國人追上並超越。這場持續了十二年的冒險，標誌著卓越而勇敢的人們、精明而有遠見的政治家、愛國主義和雄心壯志，並且如同往常一樣，受到運氣的調控，深刻影響了我們的世界及其未來的設計。

作者簡介

Massimo Capaccioli, the formerly full professor of astronomy at the Universities of Padua and then Naples Federico II, is currently a professor emeritus. A student in Texas of Gérard de Vaucouleurs, he has worked mainly on the dynamics and evolution of stellar systems and observational cosmology, publishing more than 550 scientific papers in international journals and some university textbooks (including The foundations of Celestial Mechanics, Springer 2022, with E. Bannikova). The director of the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory in Naples from 1993 to 2005, he realized, in synergy with the European Southern Observatory, the VST telescope, specialized for astronomical surveys and operational since 2011 on Cerro Paranal in Chile. He chaired the Italian Astronomical Society for a decade and the National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Naples and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Astrophysics. He has been awarded four honorary degreesin foreign countries. A freelance journalist and a passionate popularizer, he has collaborated with various newspapers and the Italian television and also founded a scientific journal in Arabic. He is the author of several popularization books.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

馬西莫·卡帕喬利（Massimo Capaccioli）曾任帕多瓦大學及那不勒斯費德里科二世大學的全職天文學教授，目前為名譽教授。他曾在德克薩斯州的熱拉爾·德·沃克勒（Gérard de Vaucouleurs）指導下學習，主要研究恆星系統的動力學與演化以及觀測宇宙學，並在國際期刊上發表了超過550篇科學論文及一些大學教科書（包括與E. Bannikova合著的《天體力學的基礎》（The foundations of Celestial Mechanics），施普林格出版社，2022年）。他於1993年至2005年擔任那不勒斯卡波迪蒙特天文台的台長，並與歐洲南方天文台合作實現了VST望遠鏡，該望遠鏡專門用於天文調查，自2011年起在智利的帕拉納爾山運行。他曾擔任意大利天文學會會長十年，並擔任那不勒斯國家科學、文學與藝術學會會長，還曾是國家天體物理研究所董事會成員。他在外國獲得了四個榮譽學位。作為自由記者和熱情的科普工作者，他與多家報紙及意大利電視台合作，並創辦了一本阿拉伯語的科學期刊。他是多本科普書籍的作者。

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