A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union's leading role
in the space race.
In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the then
Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space
exploration. Within a decade, the Soviets not only launched the world's
first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, but they also were the first to send
an animal and a human being into Earth orbit. In the years that
followed, their groundbreaking missions sent a woman into space,
launched a three-man spacecraft, and included the first person to walk
in space. Six decades on from the historic spaceflight of cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin, Burgess guides us through the amazing achievements of Russia's
spaceflight program through to the present day, introducing the men and
women who have flown the missions that drive us to delve ever deeper
into the wonders and complexities of the cosmos.