With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The

This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency’s plans to follow up the first

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 w