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Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo

Siddiqi, Asif A.

First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo, these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon program in the mid-1970s. Written by 2002 IDRF Fellow Asif Siddiqi. Buy from Amazon.

Published: University Press of Florida, 2003

ISBN: 978-0813026275

Citation: Siddiqi, Asif A., Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003).

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Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo