How Cold War Shaped The World's First Spaceport | Baikonur Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome is the story of Russia’s "crown jewels": the finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy with the aim of landing a man on the moon. It tells how, at the height of Cold War rivalry, the engineers of the Soviet Union’s elite Design Bureau developed what became the most admired rocket engines money could buy – and how eventually, in a climate driven by commerce not conflict, those engines found their way into American rockets.

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