Dr. Asif Siddiqi is a professor and space historian at Fordham University specializing in the history of science and technology. His Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 is considered the best English-language history of the Soviet space program. He also edited the series, Rockets and People, a four-volume English-translation of the memoirs of Boris Chertok, a leading space designer under Sergei Korolev. His honors include the American Historical Association’s Fellowship in Aerospace History, the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.