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Rockets and Trend offers a multifaceted research of the race toward space in the first 50 percent of the twentieth hundred years, examining how the Russian, Western, and American pioneers competed against each other in the early years to acquire the basics of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for individuals spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and targets of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. Western and American commercial capacities became the models to imitate also to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to capture up - enough to accomplish lots of impressive "firsts" in these years, from the first national rocket modern culture to the first complete surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the difficulties of its european rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and armed service programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and discovering life on other planets, during the second 50 percent of the twentieth hundred years these scientific improvements turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.
