First space race: a satellite match

In October 1957, thousands of people around the world went out at sunset or before dawn on the street to observe the first satellite in the sky. Few knew that it was usually not the apparatus itself, but the second stage of the R-7 rocket, which was in orbit along with the object running it.
The start of the cosmic era, not satellites, but launch vehicles - without them were impossible triumphs of the first cosmic flights. The book “First Space Race: A satellite fight” tells about the formation and development of long-range ballistic missiles and launch vehicles of the first artificial satellites of the Earth, about the initial stage of the ambitious rivalry between the USSR and the United States in the field of cosmos research that arose in 1957 as a side effect of a cold cold War.
The publication is addressed to a wide circle of readers, primarily interested in the history of domestic and world rocket and space technology, but the main emphasis is on youth, a beginning acquaintance with the astronautics and having general initial training in this area. The book is complemented by a large number of illustrations and graphic schemes, many of which are made specifically for this publication