Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age

Brzezinski, Matthew

ISBN 10: 159887523X ISBN 13: 9781598875232

Casa editrice: Highbridge Co, 2007

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Goes behind the scenes to describe how the fierce political battles between those on both sides of the Cold War conflict spawned the space race, discussing the implications of the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in terms of the battle between the two superpowers to put a man on the moon, in a study honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the Sputnik launch. Simultaneous.

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For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on Earth that launched the superpowers into space.

The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia's chief rocket designer, had a solution. On October 4, 1957, the launch of Korolev's satellite, Sputnik, stunned the world.

In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski draws on original interviews and new documentary sources from both sides of the Cold War divide. He shows how Khrushchev and U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower were buffeted by crises of their own creation, leaving the door open to ambitious politicians to squabble over the heavens and the earth.

The true story of the birth of the space age has never been told in such dramatic detail, and Red Moon Rising brings it vividly and memorably to life.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Highbridge Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 159887523X
• ISBN 13: 9781598875232
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile