Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the MoonISBN: 978-0-471-32721-9
Paperback
432 pages
March 1999
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Kibalchich to Korolev.
Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders.
To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets.
The Gulag and Sharaga Years.
The German V-2: Bedrock Technology.
The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA.
Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First.
Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus.
Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second.
Voskhod: A "Circus Act."
Spy Sats and Com Sats.
The Organization: Korolev Up and Down.
The Technology: Simple but Reliable.
The Party, the Paranoia.
Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous.
The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall.
After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions.
Ironic Epilogue.
Appendix.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders.
To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets.
The Gulag and Sharaga Years.
The German V-2: Bedrock Technology.
The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA.
Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First.
Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus.
Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second.
Voskhod: A "Circus Act."
Spy Sats and Com Sats.
The Organization: Korolev Up and Down.
The Technology: Simple but Reliable.
The Party, the Paranoia.
Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous.
The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall.
After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions.
Ironic Epilogue.
Appendix.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.