The Superpower Odyssey (Softback) [Yuri Y. Karash - 1999]
339 pgs, 1999, AIAA ISBN 978-1563473197
A complete picture of the superpower transition from competition to cooperation in space. Covers the history of the space programs in both the United States and Russia from the first satellite launch through the early stages of the International Space Station, with the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 and the Shuttle-Mir missions of the 1990's inbetween.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Cooperation/Competition Dilema
Stalemate: Khrushchev-Johnson and Brezhnev-Johnson Periods
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and Afterward
Cooperaton in the International Space Station Project