Space

With the successful launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 the race began to conquer the outer limits. The Americans and Russians tried to outdo the other in a sequence of almost unbelievable "firsts". The competition intensified in May 1961 when President Kennedy's pledged that a US astronaut would land on the Moon and return safely to Earth by the end of the decade. Space: The Final Frontier captures every detail of the incredible "space race" with images from both sides. Tracing the history of exploration from the fascinating development of piloted space craft, through all the major missions, to the first woman in space, the first spacewalks, the Gemini missions, the Russian Soyuz program, the Hubble Space Telescope and culminating in the Apollo 11 mission when Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon, this book celebrates the adventures that have held the world captive for the past four decades.