Bücher der Reihe Centennial of Flight Series

From 1955 to 1958, American and Soviet engineers battled to launch successfully the world's first satellite. Matt Bille and Erika Lishock tell this story from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Describes the crucial f contributions of military flight surgeons who routinely risked their lives in test aircraft, research balloons, pressure chambers, or parachute harnesses. Maura Phillips Mackowski also reveals the little-known but vital contributions of German emigre scientists whose expertise created a hybrid specialty: space medicine.