中文简介：

本书图文并茂地讲述了苏联在太空竞赛中发挥主导作用的历史。 在这本经过深入研究的年表中，科林·伯吉斯（Colin Burgess）描述了当时苏联在太空探索的先锋年代所取得的非凡成就。在十年内，苏联不仅在1957年发射了世界上**颗人造卫星——斯普特尼克号，而且还首次将动物和人类送入地球轨道。在随后的几年里，他们开创性地将一名妇女送入太空，发射了一个三人航天器，并诞生了**个在太空行走的人。从宇航员尤里·加加林（Yuri Gagarin）的历史性太空飞行开始至今，六十多年过去了，伯吉斯引导我们了解俄罗斯太空飞行计划的惊人成就，介绍了那些执行过任务的太空人，这些任务促使我们不断深入探索宇宙的奇迹和复杂性。

英文简介：

A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union's leading role in the space race. In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the then Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade, the Soviets not only launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, but they also were the first to send an animal and a human being into Earth orbit. In the years that followed, their groundbreaking missions sent a woman into space, launched a three-man spacecraft, and included the first person to walk in space. Six decades on from the historic spaceflight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Burgess guides us through the amazing achievements of Russia's spaceflight program through to the present day, introducing the men and women who have flown the missions that drive us to delve ever deeper into the wonders and complexities of the cosmos.