false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190932577m/348190.jpg 348190 8 <div><div><b>For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space</b></div><div> </div><div><div>The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia&#8217;s chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cross American skies at will. On October 4, 1957, the launch of Korolev&#8217;s satellite, Sputnik, stunned the world.</div><div><br>In <i>Red Moon Rising</i>, Matthew Brzezinski takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources from both sides of the Cold War divide, he shows how Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower were buffeted by crises of their own creation, leaving the door open to ambitious politicians and scientists to squabble over the heavens and the earth. It is a story rich in the paranoia of the time, with combatants that included two future presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders.</div><div><br>Sputnik set in motion events that led not only to the moon landing but also to cell phones, federally guaranteed student loans, and the wireless Internet. <i>Red Moon Rising</i> recounts the true story of the birth of the space age in dramatic detail, bringing it to life as never before.</div></div></div> 338477 18 9 2007 Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age total:33|5:6|4:16|3:11|2:0|1:0| 33 127 56 11 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 06:52:29 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 11:03:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 13:29:45 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 16:12:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:08:02 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 01 08:19:16 -0700 2009
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