/7 ^ /^/ff & 6 / Z2 - Challenge to Apollo The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 • • NASA SP-2000-4408 Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 by Asif A. Siddiqi National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Division Office of Policy and Plans Washington, DC 2000 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Siddiqi. Asif A., 1 966- Challenge to Apollo: the Soviet Union and the space race.
1945-1974 / by Asif A. — (The NASA history series) NASA SP; 2000-4408 Includes bibliographical references and index. Astronautics — Soviet Union — History. Space race — History. NASA SP: 4408. TL789.8S65 S47 2000 629.40947— dc2 1 00-01047 To my mother and my father, who taught me the ualue of knowledge History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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