Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1426203217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The extraordinary saga that gripped the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War—galvanized by the Sputnik launch in 1957, and culminated by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969—is chronicled in this uniquely balanced history. Scores of rare and powerful photographs recall the urgency, technical creativity, tense drama, and "parallel universes" of the two nations and their space exploration programs.. With a foreword written by the grandson of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, this lively and compelling account offers behind-the-scenes perspective from both sides.Written by Smithsonian curator Von Hardesty and researcher Gene Eisman, Epic Rivalry tells the story from th
He is a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.Gene Eisman is a veteran journalist and was the researcher for Air Force One.. Von Hardesty is the author of Air Force One; Lindbergh: Flight’s Enigmatic Hero; and Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power,1941–1945, among many other publications
A poor production This should be a good book, but disappoints in both the quantity and quality of its coverage of the great power rivalry for the dominance of space.It starts well, with an first-person account by Sergei Kruschchev of the first Sputniks. Kruschchev had a unique vantage point on the whole affair, as a technically knowledgeable person with an insider's pass on the political affairs of the Soviet Union. The first chapter or so, on the WW II German effort is worthwhile as well.From that point it deteriorates rapidly into superfi. Both sides then. In a snapshot world with nano attention spans, Epic Rivalry manages to grab and hold on. The world in 1957 was on the seam between vacuum tube and microchip, between perceived American complacency and Russian Atomic tests that dropped Strontium 90 in milk bottles across the United States. Amid the tension and fear, two clumsy stumbling giants began the race that framed the future and shapes the world view of space to this day.Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman take you back to the origins, before Sputnik, through its launch in O. So and so Not a very thorough book. The fact that the book was written by two authors is prominent and the same facts and the same stories are repeated in different chapters.
"A balanced, reader-friendly re-creation of the origins, progress, thrills and perils attending a prestigious race, desperately important at the time, only dimly remembered today." —Kirkus"An engaging story of visionary scientists focused on space travel, pragmatic politicians eager for triumphs in a propaganda war, and heroic astronauts and cosmonauts risking their livescompelling narrative of the space race as it unfolded." —Science and Spirit Magazine