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,
“... provide another picture of Korolev and much more detail about Gagarin’s life and puzzling death. Helen Gavaghan’s Something New under the Sun opens with the International Geophysical Year, an international scientific co-operative venture which highlighted the need for space-based instruments, and which, as luck would have it, took place in 1957. She ... ”
