История космического соперничества СССР и США

The confrontation between the USSR and the USA, which began with the launch of the first satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 and gradually developed into the Cold War, caused grandiose accomplishments in the field of space exploration. This book includes a chronicle of both Soviet and American space exploration and advancements, detailed descriptions of Niall Armstrong and Base Aldrin's flight to the Moon, and many rare and previously unpublished photographs. The authors of the book, Vaughn Hardesty, curator of the National Smithsonian Aerospace Museum, and Gene Eisman, a well-known researcher and journalist, show how the "parallel research" of the two countries forced them to increase the pace of space exploration, how a conflict was brewing between the USA and the USSR, in the center of which were John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. This is the history of space exploration, inextricably linked with the history of the confrontation between the two great powers on Earth.