EAN: 9783031547591

RED MOON - MASSIMO CAPACCIOLI KARTONIERT (TB)

The book is about the space race  starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon
landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of space began as a by-product of an exquisitely
military project  the rapid  and efficient delivery of explosives  conventional and then
nuclear  over great distances into enemy territory. It happened at the turn of World War II 
first with the V2s  the Wunderwaffen that von Braun had created for his Führer  and  after the
surrender of Germany and Japan  with the intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians
and Americans built to serve as cabs for atomic bombs. Restrained by the fear of nuclear
holocaust  the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned
the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a
conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon. Under the constant guidance
of Sergei Korolev  the mysterious chief designer  the Soviets got off to a surprise start and
stayed in the lead until almost the end  with the Sputniks  the orbital flights of Gagarin and
Tereshkova  the first spacewalk  and the unmanned soft landings on the Moon and Venus  only to
be caught up and overtaken by the Americans at the very edge. An adventure that lasted a total
of twelve years  marked by brilliant and courageous men  by astute and far-sighted politicians
by patriotism and ambition  and  as always  regulated by luck  which profoundly affected our
world and the design of its future.

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