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Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

This text details and analyzes the history of the Soviet space programme and tells the story of its charismatic founder Sergei Korolev. Although virtually unknown both in his own country and in the West, Korolev is considered by experts to be as, if not more, important than Wernher von Braun.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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