The Rocket Men 
Subtitle: Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781852333911
Subjects: Astronautics; History of science; Space travel & exploration; Technology; Manned space flight; Manned Space Exploration; Planets; Vostok (Spacecraft); Science; Soviet Union; Science/Mathematics; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astrophysics & Space Science; First spacewalk; Science / Astronomy; Soviet politics/history; Space Technology; Space race; World records; Voskhod (Manned satellite); Cosmology; History
First sentence: Thus wrote Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky in a letter to the engineer Boris Vorobiev, dated 12 August 1911.
Description: "In The Rocket Men authors Rex Hall and Dave Shayler review this Soviet demonstration of technological progress from both the developmental and operational aspects which were clouded in secrecy and in direct contrast to the high profile American programme. As the one-man Mercury spacecraft gave way to the two-man series on the American road to the Moon with Apollo, the multi-crewed Voskhod series which followed the single-seat Vostok was expected to compete with the Gemini programme. By developing the experience and techniques required to send cosmonauts to the Moon the series was planned as a stepping stone to the Soyuz and Zond lunar programmes then under development which would race Apollo to the Moon."--BOOK JACKET.