The Rocket Men : Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 185233391X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Features photographs from people who worked in Star City, published for the first time in the West. Reveals how the Soviet Union got ahead so quickly in the space race. Softcover.. A chronicle of the rise of the Soviet space program, drawing on recently released archival information
Best Book on Early Soviet Space Flight Robert K. Andrepont The Rocket Men is a must read, along with the authors' Soyuz and David Harland's Mir, for anyone wanting to know about the Soviet space program. When it happened, all we knew about was what Soviet propaganda told us. Now that records are available, people are available to talk, we have a more complete story of those. "Excellent - High Recommended" according to John R. Keller. Over the past few years Spring-Praxis has begun publishing high quality books about various aspects of space exploration, ranging from robotic missions to human exploration. This book is latest entry in series and continues the tradition of providing high caliber books. This time, the book focuses on the development