Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Stories about Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, and ICBMs by Asif A. Siddiqi, World Spaceflight News, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Boris Chertok

Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Stories about Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, and ICBMs
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Asif A. Siddiqi, World Spaceflight News, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Boris Chertok

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Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Stories about Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, and ICBMs

Asif A. Siddiqi, World Spaceflight News, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Boris Chertok

535 pages • paperback • first pub 2006 • 5 editions

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academici...