Space Race

The Space Race, an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the moon.

References

• An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Robert Dallek (2003). ISBN 0-316172-38-3
• Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race , Chris Gainor (2001). ISBN 1-896522-83-1
• Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Bert Vis (2003). ISBN 0803262124
• Light This Candle : The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman, Neal Thompson (2004). ISBN 0609610015
• The New Columbia Encyclopedia, Col.Univ.Press (1975).
• The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe (pbk ed. 2001). ISBN 0553381350 ISBN 0613916670
• Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier?, Brian Harvey (2001). ISBN 1852332034
• The Soviet Space Race With Apollo, Asif A. Siddiqi (2003). ISBN 0813026288
• Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft, Rex Hall, David J. Shayler (2003). ISBN 1852336579
• Space for Women: A History of Women With the Right Stuff, Pamela Freni (2002). ISBN 1931643121
• Space Exploration, Carole Scott, Eyewitness Books, 1997
• Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, Asif A. Siddiqi (2003). ISBN 081302627X
• Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles, Roger E. Bilstein (2003). ISBN 0813026911
• Yeager: An Autobiography, Chuck Yeager (1986). ISBN 0553256742