Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry

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Contents

Series Introduction by Asif A. Siddiqi ix

Introduction to Volume II xxi

A Few Notes about Transliteration and Translation xxiii

List of Abbreviations xxv

Three New Technologies, Three State Committees 1

The Return 25

From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island 43

Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor 75

The Alliance with Science 93

Department U 109

Face to Face with the R-1 Missile 119

The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service 141

Managers and Colleagues 155

NII-885 and Other Institutes 177

Air Defense Missiles 199

Flying by the Stars 219

Missiles of the Cold War’s First Decade 239

On the First Missile Submarine 247

Prologue to Nuclear Strategy 265

The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile 289

The Birth of a Firing Range 313

15 May 1957 337

No Time for a Breather 355

Mysterious Illness 369

Breakthrough into Space 379

Flight-Development Tests Continue 393

The R-7 Goes into Service 415

From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond 421

Lunar Assault 435

Back at RNII 457

The Great Merger 477

First School of Control in Space 491

Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka 519

The Beginning of the 1960s 539

“Onward to Mars...and Venus” 563

Catastrophes 597

Index 643