The Soviet Space Race with Apollo

Author:   Asiya Siddiqi
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
ISBN:  

9780813026282


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   28 February 2003
Format:   Paperback
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The Soviet Space Race with Apollo


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"First published by NASA in 2000 as """"Challenge to Apollo"""", this volume, together with a second volume entitled """"Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge"""", presents a comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programmes covering a period of 30 years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon programme in the mid-1970s. The spectacular Soviet successes of Sputnik - the first Earth satellite (1957) - and Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space (1961) - shocked US leaders and prompted President John F. Kennedy to set the goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. The moon race culminated with the historic landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 (coincidentally, the first Soviet unmanned moon probe crashed on its surface while the American astronauts were at Tranquility Base). The epic story of the Soviet space programme remained shrouded in secrecy until the unprecedented opening of top secret documents. Based almost entirely on these Russian-language sources and numerous interviews with veterans, Siddiqi's book breaks through the rumours, hearsay and speculation that characterized books on the Soviet space programme published during the Cold War years. Supplementing the text with dozens of previously classified photographs, he weaves together the technical, political and personal history of the major Soviet space programmes, providing the other side of the history of human space flight."

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Author:   Asiya Siddiqi
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.678kg
ISBN:  

9780813026282


ISBN 10:   0813026288
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   28 February 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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The essential reference work for Soviet/Russian space history...for anyone hoping to make sense of the too many 'truths' of Soviet Space history. - Journal of Military History; We finally have a definitive English-language history covering the first three decades of the Soviet Union's space program. Sixteen years in the making, Asif Siddiqi's amazingly detailed book provides a kaleidoscopic view of the technical and political evolution of Soviet missile and space projects....a veritable gold-mind of factual information. - Air Power History; An extraordinary volume....This is not simply an account of one side of the space race. It is nothing less than the first full-scale, detailed explanation of how and why the Soviet Union led the world into space. - The Public Historian; No space buff's library will be complete without this book. Readers will marvel at the complex interactions between design bureaus, and will enjoy getting to know the people behind the failed Soviet effort - a vital step toward putting Apollo's victory in context. - Smithsonian Air and Space; Absolutely mandatory on the bookshelf of anyone interested in space. - Encyclopedia Astronautica


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Asif Siddiqi is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000.

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