"Rockets and Revolution" offers a multifaceted study of the race
toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining
how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against
one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of
rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the
path for human spaceflight.
Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic
ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution
drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American
industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass.
The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up--enough to
achieve a number of remarkable "firsts" in these years, from the
first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of
spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals
time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology
and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction,
political ideology, and military programs.
While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of
space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second
half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back
on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic
missile and the coming of the Cold War.
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