Red Moon Rising (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Red Moon Rising Sunday, November 1 2009.

Ulrich edited the books like this book of Red Moon Rising Wednesday, October 28 2009.

• Added Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
• Added Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
• Added The Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History of Project Apollo
• Added Two Sides of the Moon : Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
• Added Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

Timothy Gray changed the title of Red Moon Rising Wednesday, October 28 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 6 books, including Red Moon Rising, Wednesday, October 28 2009.

Ulrich submitted a request to combine 6 books, including Red Moon Rising, Wednesday, October 28 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Red Moon Rising Thursday, August 13 2009.

• For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space   The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia’s chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cross American skies at will. On October 4, 1957, the launch of Korolev’s satellite, Sputnik, stunned the world. In Red Moon Rising , Matthew Brzezinski takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources from both sides of the Cold War divide, he shows how Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower were buffeted by crises of their own creation, leaving the door open to ambitious politicians and scientists to squabble over the heavens and the earth. It is a story rich in the paranoia of the time, with combatants that included two future presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders. Sputnik set in motion events that led not only to the moon landing but also to cell phones, federally guaranteed student loans, and the wireless Internet. Red Moon Rising recounts the true story of the birth of the space age in dramatic detail, bringing it to life as never before.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Red Moon Rising Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added a contributor: Matthew Brzezinski: (Primary Author)