Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, 200 First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo , these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned Space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon program in the mid-1970s.
The spectacular Soviet successes of Sputnik--the first Earth satellite (1957) and Yuri Gagarin--.
Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, 200 First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo , these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned Space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon program in the mid-1970s