Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age

ISBN-13: 9780747593072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str.

Matthew Brzezinski

Opis

On 4 October 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth's first artificial moon, which passed over the American continent once every 101 minutes. This book describes a time when two nations and ideologies were pi