Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
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The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed our world.
On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
Based on extensive research in the US and newly opened archives in the former USSR, Red Moon Rising …



