The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957
by
Asif Siddiqi
The Red Rockets Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history. Asif A. Siddiqi frames the origins of Sputnik by bridging imagin...more
Hardcover, 402 pages
Published
March 31st 2010
by Cambridge University Press
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