Beautiful New Sky: Fabricating Bodies for Outer Space in East Germany's Military

by Ines Geipel

It was a bold, ambitious and wildly arrogant idea: extending the reach of communism into space. Spurred on by the defeat of Hitler and the competitive rivalry with the United States, the Soviet space programme saw a frenetic surge of scientific activity focused on the objective of demonstrating Communist mastery beyond the confines of the Earth. In order to create the optimally standardized bodies that cosmonauts would require, top secret military...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150955999X
• ISBN13: 9781509559992
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 178 Pages