In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race,Amy Cherrix ,Josh Horowitz

-About this book

An exhilarating dive into the secret history of humankind’s race to the moon, from acclaimed author Amy Cherrix. This fascinating and immersive read is perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin’s Bomb and M. T. Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead.

You’ve heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story?

The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War—Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country—and your textbooks probably never told you.

Von Braun became an American hero, recognized the world over, while Korolev toiled in obscurity. These two brilliant rocketeers never met, but together they shaped the science of spaceflight and redefined modern warfare. From Stalin’s brutal Gulag prisons and Hitler’s concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests pushed science—and human ingenuity—to the breaking point.

From Amy Cherrix comes the extraordinary hidden story of the space race and the bitter rivalry that launched humankind to the moon.

-Contents

dedication
Epigraph
Note to a Reluctant Reader
Stage I: The Quest for Rockets
Chapter 1: The Osenberg List
Chapter 2: The Honored Nazi
Chapter 3: Rise of the Rocket Fanatic
Chapter 4: Camp Dora
Chapter 5: Betraying Hitler
Chapter 6: An Innocent Traitor
Chapter 7: Confiscating the Spoils of War
Chapter 8: Back to the USSR
Chapter 9: Space Cowboys
Chapter 10: The Cold War
Chapter 11: Welcome to the Watercress Capital of the World!
Chapter 12: The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)
Chapter 13: A Rocket Man in Tomorrowland
Stage II: The Quest for Satellites
Chapter 14: A Red Moon Rises
Chapter 15: Army vs. Navy
Chapter 16: Object D
Chapter 17: Sputnik
Chapter 18: Bleep-Bleep-Bleep
Chapter 19: The Invisible Man
Chapter 20: Laika and the Cosmo-Mutt Cover-Up
Chapter 21: The Invisible Woman
Chapter 22: The American Satellite
Stage III: The Quest for the Moon
Chapter 23: NASA Is Born
Chapter 24: “The Right Stuff”
Chapter 25: Squirrel and Little Arrow
Chapter 26: Growing Pains at NASA
Chapter 27: Blast Radius
Chapter 28: The First to Fly
Chapter 29: The Russians’ “Right Stuff”
Chapter 30: “Poyekhali!” (“Let’s Go!”)
Chapter 31: “Light This Candle”
Chapter 32: Behind the Wall
Chapter 33: “She Is a Gagarin in a Skirt”
Chapter 34: “The President Has Been Shot”
Chapter 35: Stepping-Stones to the Moon
Chapter 36: Da Svidaniya (“Goodbye”)
Chapter 37: “A Rough Road Leads to the Stars”
Chapter 38: Apollo Takes Flight
Chapter 39: “One Small Step”
Chapter 40: Return to Rocket City
Chapter 41: Life after Apollo
Chapter 42: Out of the Shadows
Chapter 43: All That Remains
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Endnotes

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :9 février 2021

Éditeur :   Unabridged edition

Langue : Anglais

ISBN-10 : 1799948870

ISBN-13 : 978-1799948872

Poids de l’article : 234 g