Red Moon Rising: Sputnik And The Hidden Rivalries That Ignited The Space Age by Matthew Brzezinski

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik And The Hidden Rivalries That Ignited The Space Age

Matthew Brzezinski

322 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
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On October 4 1957, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth's first artifical moon. Powered by a car battery, it passed over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes and propelled the USSR from backward state to superpower an...

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