Korolev
How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
Harford, James
CONTENTS
Preface
A Note About Russian Names
Abbreviations
Prologue - The Anonymous Chief Designer
1 Kibalchich to Korolev
2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders 3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets
4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years
5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology
6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA
7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev - At First
8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus
9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second
10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act"
11 Spy Sats and Com Sats
12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down
13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable
14 The Party, the Paranoia
15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous
16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall
17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions
18 Ironie Epilogue
Appendix - A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Softcover
392 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition, one corner slightly bumped
New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Singapore - 1997 - John Wiley & Sons
Art.Nr. 19198
