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Rockets and People: Volume IV: The Moon Race

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Rockets and People: Volume IV: The Moon Race
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Publisher: NASA
ISBN/ASIN: B0075GUG6K

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In this last volume of his four-volume set of memoirs, the famous Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the history of the Soviet space program, this time covering 1968 to 1974, the peak years of the Soviet human lunar program.

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