
A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science. In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have...

A witty history of the surprisingly ridiculous and ramshackle Soviet space program. "A brisk, rip-roaring account." --The Wall Street Journal The Space Race should have been over before it started. The USSR was battered from World War...
Release Date: Jul 6, 2027