Item Description: | "Originally the second half of 'Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974', a single volume published in 2000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... The present volume includes chapters 12-20 accompanied by tables and appendices (pages 517-977 of that book). Its companion volume, 'Sputnik and the Soviet space challenge,' includes the first half of the original publication" -- p. [ix]. |