| | Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry |
| | 3,56 | | MB |
| | 669 | | stron |
| | 6268 | | ID | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| | 2006 | | rok |
| | 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 |