NASA
Rockets and People, Volume IV: The Moon Race
Boris E. Chertok
Engineering & Transportation
Rockets and People, Volume IV: The Moon Race
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In this last volume of his four-volume set of memoirs, the famous Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the history of the Soviet space program, this time covering 1968 to 1974, the peak years of the Soviet human lunar program.

Language
English
ISBN
9781484842867
Series Introduction
Introduction to Volume IV
A Few Notes About Transliteration and Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Voice of the People…
Chapter 1: Rocket-Space Chronology (Historical Overview)
Chapter 2: U.S. Lunar Program
Chapter 3: N1-L3 Lunar Program Under Korolev
Chapter 4: A Difficult Conversation with Korolev
Chapter 5: N1-L3 Control
Chapter 6: We’re Behind, but We’re Not Giving In
Chapter 7: KORD and ATG
Chapter 8: Once Again We’re Ahead of the Whole World
Chapter 9: “Sort It Out, and Report on Your Endeavors”
Chapter 10: 1969—The First N-1 Launch
Chapter 11: After the Failure of N-1s No. 3 and No. 5
Chapter 12: Long-Duration Space Stations Instead of the Moon
Chapter 13: Preparing for the Launch of DOS
Chapter 14: Launching Salyut
Chapter 15: Sun City
Chapter 16: The Hot Summer of 1971
Chapter 17: The Last N-1 Launch
Chapter 18: People in the Control Loop
Chapter 19: Valentin Glushko, N-1, and NPO Energiya
Epilogue
Afterword
Table Index
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