Now that it has been some years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, increasing amounts of information are being released about technological developments in Russia. In "Kosmos / The Other Side of the Moon: Pictures from the Russian Space Program," Adam Bartos shows how different the Soviet Union's space programme was from that in the United States. While the West was launching smooth and gleaming vehicles toward the moon, Russian space vehicles appear to have had a more human aura. With attention for colour and design, the Russian rockets appear a bit more archaic. But, witness the first blow that Russia dealt in space - when Yuri Gagarin became the first man to circle the earth in space - they were however at least as powerful.