To the Moon: Cold War Space Competition

ISBN-13: 9783565281862 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str.

Talia Westcott

Opis

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.

From Baikonur flames rose Sputnik, answered by Saturn rockets piercing Tranquility's dust.