Cosmic!
Tim Radford: Yuri and the Astronauts, 5 March 1998
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
by James Harford.
Wiley, 392 pp., £24.95, June 1997,0 471 14853 9 Show More
by James Harford.
Wiley, 392 pp., £24.95, June 1997,
Countdown: A History of Space Flight
by T.A. Heppenheimer.
Wiley, 398 pp., £24.95, June 1997,0 471 14439 8 Show More
by T.A. Heppenheimer.
Wiley, 398 pp., £24.95, June 1997,
Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
by Helen Gavaghan.
Copernicus, 300 pp., £15, December 1997,0 387 94914 3 Show More
by Helen Gavaghan.
Copernicus, 300 pp., £15, December 1997,
Space and the American Imagination
by Howard McCurdy.
Smithsonian, 294 pp., £19.95, November 1997,1 56098 764 2 Show More
by Howard McCurdy.
Smithsonian, 294 pp., £19.95, November 1997,
“... to a special labour camp in Moscow, where he worked with the aviation engineer Andrei Tupolev. As James Harford tells us in his biography, Korolev’s assignment at Peenemunde came after seven years in the camps. He was a victim who became a hero: he lost his teeth and nearly his life in the camps of Kolyma but became one of the most important men of the ... ”
