The Soviet Space Race with Apollo

Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, 2001

First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo, these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon program in the mid-1970s.

The spectacular Soviet successes of Sputnik—the first Earth satellite (1957) and Yuri Gagarin—the first man in space (...