Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who w

Volume 3 of the memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian. Covers the history of the Soviet space program from 1961 to 1967.

Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and

Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discove

This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the Unit