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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-17 - Publisher: MIT Press
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Language: en
Pages: 355
Pages: 355
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-18 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-25 - Publisher: MIT Press
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Betwe
Language: en
Pages: 359
Pages: 359
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-28 - Publisher: MIT Press
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957,
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Springer
In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising