NASA
Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War
Boris E. Chertok
Engineering & Transportation
Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War
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In this third volume of a planned 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 early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967, arguably the peak of the effort.

Language
English
ISBN
9781484842768
Series Introduction
Introduction to Volume III
A Few Notes about Transliteration and Translation
Chapter 1 The Cold War
Chapter 2 Preparation for Piloted Flights
Chapter 3 The First Piloted Spaceflight: “We’re Off”
Chapter 4 The Cuban Missile Crisis… and Mars
Chapter 5 Strategic Missile Selection
Chapter 6 Correcting the Great Ones’ Mistakes
Chapter 7 After Gagarin, Others Will Fly
Chapter 8 Man and Woman
Chapter 9 The Voskhods and the First Spacewalk
Chapter 10 Radio Engineering Digression
Chapter 11 Star Wars
Chapter 12 Spying from Space
Chapter 13 The Hard Road to a Soft Landing
Chapter 14 Last Launches Under Korolev
Chapter 15 The Molniya-1 Communications Satellite
Chapter 16 Molniya-1 in Space (and more)
Chapter 17 Korolev’s Last Days, Death, and Funeral
Chapter 18 Birth of the Soyuzes
Chapter 19 Flying the Soyuz
Chapter 20 The Death of Komarov
Chapter 21 “On the Distant Star Venus…”
Chapter 22 First Rendezvous and Docking
Chapter 23 Heart-to-Heart Conversation
Chapter 24 Zond-4
Chapter 25 Gagarin’s Birthday and Death
Chapter 26 Academic Digression
List of Abbreviations
Table Index
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