To the Moon: Cold War Space Competition

From Sputnik's beep to Armstrong's footprint, the space race turned rocketry into proxy warfare between superpowers racing lunar supremacy. This book traces milestones-Gagarin's Vostok orbit, Shepard's suborbital hop, Glenn's Friendship 7, Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight, Leonov's spacewalk, Apollo 8 lunar orbit, culminating in Apollo 11's Sea of Tranquility landing. Drawing from declassified m...