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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 fourth, 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 those its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the entire world. Based on extensive research in america and newly opened archives in the former USSR, Red Moon Rising tells the storyline of five extraordinary months in the history of technology and the rivalry between two superpowers. It requires us inside the Kremlin and introduces the Soviet engineer Korolev, the charismatic, politically-minded visionary who motivated Khruschev to support what others dismissed as a ridiculous program. Korolev is virtually unknown to many Americans, yet it is because of him that NASA exists, that university loan programs were started in the US, which Kennedy and Johnson became presidents. Character driven, suspenseful, and dramatic, Red Moon Rising unveils the politics, people, science, and mindset behind a crucial and transformative world event.
