The Soviet Space Race With Apollo
Book • 2003
This book, initially published by NASA in 2000 as 'Challenge to Apollo,' provides a detailed and definitive English-language history of the Soviet Union's space program.
It covers a period of thirty years, from the capture of German rocket technology after World War II to the collapse of the Soviet moon program in the mid-1970s.
The book is based on previously classified Russian-language sources and numerous interviews with veterans, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the technical, political, and personal history of the major Soviet space programs.
It includes dozens of previously classified photographs and provides the other side of the history of human space flight, putting the Soviet achievements and failures into context with the Apollo program.
It covers a period of thirty years, from the capture of German rocket technology after World War II to the collapse of the Soviet moon program in the mid-1970s.
The book is based on previously classified Russian-language sources and numerous interviews with veterans, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the technical, political, and personal history of the major Soviet space programs.
It includes dozens of previously classified photographs and provides the other side of the history of human space flight, putting the Soviet achievements and failures into context with the Apollo program.
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