Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974. NASA SP-2000-4408
Washington, DC: NASA, 2000. 1011, illus., figures, tables, footnotes, glossary, bibliographic essay, appendices, index, some creasing in margins of pp. 33-82. Part of the NASA History Series. The author weaves together three broad interpretive themes: the institutional framework of the Soviet space program and the constituencies that sometimes teamed together and sometimesfought with each other: the engineers, the artillery officers, the defense industrialists, and the Communist Party leaders; Soviet military officers' quick loss of interest in civilian space activities, since such efforts could hurt the funding potential for military rocketry; and Soviets' methods of technological innovation, with the author challenging the Western conventional wisdom that the Soviets always tended toward incremental, rather than revolutionary, innovation. Condition: very good, very good.
Keywords: Soviet Union, Space Race, Cold War, Engineering, Space Program, Sputnik Satellites, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Sergey Korolev
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