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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Cosmic!

Tim Radford

  • Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
  • Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
  • Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
  • Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy

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Tim Radford is science editor at the Guardian.

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