Rockets and People. Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War

In this third volume of the series, Chertok describes the historical launch of the first cosmonaut, Yuriy Gagarin.He also discusses several different aspects of the burgeoning Soviet missile and space programs of the early 1960s, including the development of early ICBMs, reconnaissance satellites, the Cuban missile crisis, the first Soviet communications satellite Molniya-1, and more.