The Red Rockets’ Glare
Asif A. Siddiqi The Red Rockets’ Glare Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957 The Red Rockets’ Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history. Asif A. Siddiqi frames the...