Soviet Space Secrets recounts some of the stranger spaceflight stories to have emerged since the fall of the 'Iron Curtain'. Chapters on this hidden history include: the Russian space pioneer killed during Stalin's murderous purge of the 1930s; how Jodrell Bank radio telescope in England played a unique part in 'snooping' on the first Sputniks; the Soviet side of the Moon Race; and efforts to get cosmonauts to Mars by 1975