Soviet Space Secrets: Hidden stories from the Space Race - Paperback

by Dominic Phelan (Author)

Soviet Space Secrets recounts some of the stranger spaceflight stories to have emerged since the fall of the 'Iron Curtain'. Chapters on this hidden history include: the Russian space pioneer killed during Stalin's murderous purge of the 1930s; how Jodrell Bank radio telescope in England played a unique part in 'snooping' on the first Sputniks; the Soviet side of the Moon Race; and efforts to get cosmonauts to Mars by 1975!