Rockets and People, vol. 1.(Book review)
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Publication Title: Air Power History
Format: Online
Author: Bobrow, Carl J.

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Rockets and People, Vol. 1. By Boris Chertok and Asif A. Siddiqi, eds. Washington, D.C.: NASA History Division, 2005. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. Pp. xxix, 402. $42.00 ISBN: 0-16-973239-5

In 1988 I attended an international conference on aeronautics and astronautics in Moscow sponsored by the then USSR Academy of Sciences. Only a handful of Americans attended: some from NASA and the National Air and Space Museum and a few independent scholars fortunate enough to be invited. These were the heady days of glasnost and perestroika--a time when Soviet citizens involved in...



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