The red rockets' glare
Subtitle: spaceflight and the Soviet imagination, 1857-1957
By: Asif A. Siddiqi
Series: Cambridge centennial of flight; Cambridge centennial of flight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780521897600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: A space for science and a science for space; title: "Grief and genius"; title: Imagining the cosmos; title: Local action, state imperatives; title: "All of this requires investigation"; title: Russians in Germany; title: The Cold War and the creation of the Soviet ICBM; title: Fellow travelers; title: Launching Sputnik.