 | Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space by Deborah Cadbury
Buy used from: $0.59 2006. "Cadbury makes this more than dry scientific history by looking at the two programs from the standpoint of the two men leading the projects." Excellent background material. DVD: B000GBK28I
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 | Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by David Scott
Buy used from: $1.68 2004. "Each man is frank, easy to understand and allows his personality to show through his story."
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 | Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge by Asif A. Siddiqi
Buy new: $25.53 / Used from: $21.93 2003. "If you are interested in the history of early space exploration, this book fills in many of the holes that most Western histories leave unexplored."
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 | Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Rex Hall
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $21.59 2003. "An integral element of Salyut , Mir and Internatioanl Space Station ISS operations, the small ferry has been the mainstay of cosmonaut transportation since 1967."
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 | Russian Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Isaac Abramov
Buy new: $34.18 / Used from: $30.63 2003. "This is an excellent book with details not before shown outside the formerly closed confines of the old Soviet space program, except in various technical society papers."
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 | Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance by James Oberg
Buy used from: $0.90 2002. "For any student of US/Soviet/Russian space history, Oberg's latest book is required reading."
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 | Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by David M. Harland
Buy new: $48.31 / Used from: $27.95 2002. "They also provide an account of the long-term stresses and strains of building the ISS on the US/Russia relationship, especially after 1997."
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 | Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier? by Brian Harvey
Buy new: $37.96 / Used from: $20.99 2001. "The quality and imagination of the Russian space program is incredible, and it would be a invaluable loss if it had to collapse completely ..."
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 | The Rocket Men : Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights by Rex Hall
Buy new: $30.26 / Used from: $12.00 2001. "This truly an excellent book and presents a lot new information in a relatively non-technical way."
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 | Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age by Adam Bartos
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $3.95 2001. "All in all, after much anticipation, Kosmos exceeded my expectations and stirred a wave of memories." The photographs of the Russians and Russian space-related sites were made for this book.
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 | Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir by Jerry M. Linenger
Buy used from: $0.24 2000. "... eminently readable, and a truly facinating tale, with enough intensely dramatic content to keep me reading beyond each chapter heading." A must read.
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 | Letters from MIR: An Astronaut's Letters to His Son by Jerry Linenger
Buy used from: $0.74 2000. "Linenger's letters to his son changed from a routine chronicle of daily events into the eloquent, deeply moving serial narrative ..."
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 | Living in Space: From Science Fiction to the International Space Station by Giovanni Caprara
Buy used from: $0.60 2000. "The Russians deservedly get two chapters, one on Mir's predecessors, the Salyut series, and one on Mir itself."
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 | Dynamic Earth Environments: Remote Sensing Observations from Shuttle-Mir Missions
Buy new: $158.50 / Used from: $8.12 2000. "... the Space Shuttle and the Mir Space Station as platforms for acquiring remote sensing information about the Earth between 1996 and 1998 ..."
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 | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky His Life and Work by A. Kosmodemyansky
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.53 2000. "A pioneering Russian aeronautical theorist and writer, he is the father of the Soviet space program."
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 | Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $5.56 1999. "This book is very well resarched and gives deep insights into the Soviet space effort unknown in the West."
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 | The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation (Library of Flight Series) by Yuri Y. Karash
Buy used from: $47.48 1999. "Provides a picture of U.S. Russia cooperation in Space exploration. Covers the history of the first satellite launch through the early stages of the International Space Station ..."
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 | SOVIET MANNED SPACE PROGRAM by Phillip Clark
Buy used from: $5.09 1988. "This book is as much a detective story about trying to gather information in the pre- glasnost Soviet Union as it is an exhaustive history of every Soviet manned space mission."
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 | The First Manned Spaceflight: Russia's Quest for Space by Vladimir Suvorov
Buy new: $62.05 / Used from: $96.75 1996. "Offers an insider's view on the early era of Russian space flight, based on notes by a documentary cinematographer who eyewitnessed events between 1959 and 1969 ..."
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 | The New Russian Space Programme: From Competition to Collaboration (Wiley-Praxis Series in Space Science and Technology) by Brian Harvey
Buy used from: $89.85 1996. "Takes advantage of the rich supply of post-glasnost material from the former Soviet Union. Provides a definitive history of the Russian space program."
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 | The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars by Roald Z. Sagdeev
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.88 1994. "This is a powerful yet charming account of the Soviet Union's scientific, space, and military enterprise, characterized by Sagdeev's frank and insightful style mixed with delightful humor ..."
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| Cosmonautics: A Colorful History : History of Society-Russian Space Programs
Buy used from: $239.99 1994. See also the outstanding website: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
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| The New Race for Space: The U.S. and Russia Leap to the Challenge for Unlimited Rewards by James E. Oberg
Buy used from: $1.00 1984. "This modest ... paperback is a collection of Oberg's articles on space flight subjects from the early 1980s, and half of it is a supplement to his better-known book 'Red Star in Orbit'."
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 | Russia in Space / Rosiya V Kosmose
1998. VHS. "The first ten years in history of Soviet space program - the time of Kololev." See also: PBS/Nova VHS "Russian Right Stuff".
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 | Mission to Mir
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.71 1997. DVD. "Filmed in by American astronauts, the film examines their relationships with Mir's cosmonauts as they live, work and entertain in a zero-gravity environment." Awesome! Visually stunning!
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