To the Moon: Cold War Space Competition
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English
2026
ISBN 9783565281879
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About this book
From Sputnik's beep to Armstrong's footprint, the space race turned rocketry into proxy warfare between superpowers racing lunar supremacy. This book traces milestones—Gagarin's Vostok orbit, Shepard's suborbital hop, Glenn's Friendship 7, Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight, Leonov's spacewalk, Apollo 8 lunar orbit, culminating in Apollo 11's Sea of Tranquility landing. Drawing from declassified mission transcripts, Kennedy speeches, and Baikonur/Cape Canaveral records, To the Moon: Cold War Space Competition reveals engineering duels, political pressures, and technical gambles that propelled humanity beyond Earth. It examines how Saturn V reliability outpaced N1 explosions to claim cosmic high ground.
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