A perfect book for an enthusiast or someone wishing to learn about lunar exploration for the first time who does not want to go into excessive technical depth.

Details recently declassified information about the chinese lunar exploration projects and nuclear lunar weapons of the '50s developed by the US and USSR super powers Provides multilingual references (including chinese, russian, czech, french, italian) Provides a first, popular history of lunar exploration at an accessible and understandable level

Inhalt
The Beginning of the Space Race (early Soviet rocketry and US satellite projects).- The Space Race 1960-1969 (the race between US and USSR unmanned spacecraft).- United States Wins the Race (US Apollo Programme).- How the Soviet Union Lost the Race (Soviet human lunar projects).- The Race is Over (unmanned lunar exploration of the '70s and '80s).- The Small Ones are Coming (probe missions).- The Future (possible lunar missions over the next decade).