Red Moon. Soviet conquest of space. Kapaccholi M.

During the Cold War, the United States and the USSR, restrained by fear of a nuclear disaster, turned a dangerous confrontation into a unique rivalry for the sky - a phased race, the conditional finish of which was a person’s landing on the moon. On July 20, 1969, the Americans were the first to reach the finish tape. But how many remember that at the start it was the Soviet Union unexpectedly escaped forward and, leading the whole world to excitement and awe, held the lead to almost the end of the race? Starting from the innovative ideas of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, who has settled the possibility of space flights, Massimo Kapaccioli in a lively and exciting manner tells about all stages of the space race, paying special attention to the role of the USSR. The mysterious “chief designer” Sergey Pavlovich Korolev, the first artificial Earth’s satellite, a Like dog, brave cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexei Leonov - all of them became symbols and real champions of an unprecedented competition. This story is not only about huge machines and complex mechanisms, this story about aspirations and ambitions, dedication and patriotism, meanness and jealousy, about the successes, mistakes and whims of fate.