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 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 1960s Moon Race; and secret efforts to get cosmonauts to Mars by 1975!