Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

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.