Race to the moon tells how the US and USSR competed to put the first human on the Moon, and how NASA’s Apollo program took less than a decade to get there.
British agent Paul Chavasse embarks on a desperate mission to Tibet in 1962 to smuggle out brilliant scientist Dr. Karl Hoffner, a man who holds the key to victory in the Cold War.
the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the space age
McCray, Patrick
2008
Describes the history of the "moonwatchers, " ordinary American citizens who became amateur scientists by taking an active role in the space-age of the late 1950s, watching and charting satellites using homemade telescopes and other devices.
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
Photographs and text chronicle the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to reach the moon, looking at the lengths to which each nation went to keep an eye on what the other was doing, and discussing how the contest evolved into a partnership.
Collects fourteen documents from and about the space race, including news articles, excerpts from speeches by U.S. leaders, personal accounts by astronauts, and three essays on the race's impact on Soviet and American society and culture.
This book discusses the United States' role in the space race in the 1960s, including the beginning of NASA, early space exploration, and the first moon landing by American astronauts.
