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Red Moon Rising
Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991
Artificial satellites
Astronautics
Cold War
New York Times reviewed
Politics and government
History
The behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space. Khrushchev was frustrated at America's U-2 spy plane, which flew too high to be shot down. But Russia's chief rocket designer, had an answer: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cr…
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