This listing is for the vintage 1973 USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ROCKET ENGINES SPACE Technologies GLUSHKO book. 88 page paperback lightwear to cover book is intact. Pages are crisp and clean. Includes many black and white photos. Small tear to spine as shown and staying to front cover.

V.P. Glushko. DEVELOPMENT OF ROCKETRY AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY IN THE USSR (Novosti Press Publishing House, Moscow, 1973) 6.5 x 7.5”, 48 text pages + 38pp. of illustrations.

Valentin Petrovich Glushko, “A History of the Development of Rocketry and Space Technology in the USSR”. First American edition of the above, reprinted in Space World, The Magazine of Space News, April 1976. Original pictorial wrappers (softcover), illustrated. Ex-library copy with rubberstamps on front cover and contents page, and small label on cover.

Valentin Glushko (1908-1989) was Sergei Korolev’s colleague and sometimes rival in designing the Russian rockets that first put the USSR ahead in the “Space Race” with the United States.

Glushko was the principal Soviet designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov. In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit.

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