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Korolev
How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
Harford, James
John Wiley & Sons Inc
04/1999
432
Mole
Inglês
9780471327219
15 a 20 dias
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Preface ix
A Note about Russian Names xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Prologue The Anonymous Chief Designer 1
Chapter
1 Kibalchich to Korolev 8
2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders 16
3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets 29
4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years 49
5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology 64
6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA 91
7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First 121
8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus 139
9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second 159
10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act" 180
11 Spy Sats and Com Sats 190
12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down 201
13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable 219
14 The Party, the Paranoia 230
15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous 246
16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall 276
17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions 286
18 Ironic Epilogue 313
Appendix A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974 324
Notes 340
Bibliography 372
Index 377
A Note about Russian Names xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Prologue The Anonymous Chief Designer 1
Chapter
1 Kibalchich to Korolev 8
2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders 16
3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets 29
4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years 49
5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology 64
6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA 91
7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First 121
8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus 139
9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second 159
10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act" 180
11 Spy Sats and Com Sats 190
12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down 201
13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable 219
14 The Party, the Paranoia 230
15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous 246
16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall 276
17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions 286
18 Ironic Epilogue 313
Appendix A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974 324
Notes 340
Bibliography 372
Index 377
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Preface ix
A Note about Russian Names xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Prologue The Anonymous Chief Designer 1
Chapter
1 Kibalchich to Korolev 8
2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders 16
3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets 29
4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years 49
5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology 64
6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA 91
7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First 121
8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus 139
9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second 159
10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act" 180
11 Spy Sats and Com Sats 190
12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down 201
13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable 219
14 The Party, the Paranoia 230
15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous 246
16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall 276
17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions 286
18 Ironic Epilogue 313
Appendix A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974 324
Notes 340
Bibliography 372
Index 377
A Note about Russian Names xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Prologue The Anonymous Chief Designer 1
Chapter
1 Kibalchich to Korolev 8
2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders 16
3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets 29
4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years 49
5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology 64
6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA 91
7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First 121
8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus 139
9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second 159
10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act" 180
11 Spy Sats and Com Sats 190
12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down 201
13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable 219
14 The Party, the Paranoia 230
15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous 246
16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall 276
17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions 286
18 Ironic Epilogue 313
Appendix A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974 324
Notes 340
Bibliography 372
Index 377
