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DEBUT In 1961, President Kennedy inaugurated the space race with the Soviets in a speech setting the bold national agenda of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." That last phrase is a key plot point in this accomplished, emotionally rich first novel about the Soviet space program in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Blending history and fiction, the novel imagines a Soviet space program fully able to launch men and women into...Log In or Sign Up to Read More