Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (NASA History Series SP-2000-4408)

Contributor(s): Siddiqi, Asif a (Author), Nasa History Office (Author)

ISBN: 9781780393018

Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK

Hardcover

$89.95

Pub Date: March 1, 2011

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 2.13" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 3.50 lbs) 1030 pages

BISAC Categories:

Technology and Engineering | Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Description: Taking advantage of the Soviet archives, which were opened in the 1990s, Siddiqi has written a groundbreaking work that examines why the Soviet Union fell behind in the space race of the 1960s after changing the course of human history with the first artificial satellite launch, Sputnik, in 1957.