Everything you need to understand or teach The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall.
The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall is a history of the space age. McDougall looks at the space age not only from the development of the technology, but also within the context of the Cold War. It is not how the technology came into being but the international political events that led to the different events in space history. The book begins in Russia where Tsar Alexander is...