Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier

A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union’s leading role in the space race.

In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the then Soviet Union’s extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade, the Soviets not only launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, but they also were the first to send an animal and a human being into Earth orbit. In the years that followed, their groundbreaking missions sent a woman into...