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Epic Rivalry

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  6. Burrows, pp. 340-342.

  7. Quoted in Men in Space, p. 45.

  8. See Time, March 2, 1962; Scott and Leonov, pp. 76-77; Siddiqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 356-361.

  9. Ibid., p. 358.

  10. Ibid., p. 360.

  11. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Project Apollo, The Tough Decisions, Washington, D.C.: NASA History Division, 2005, p. 42.

  12. Siddiqi, Challenge to Apollo, p. 371.

  13. Skrytyy Kosmos, Book One, Moscow: Infortekst, 1995, p. 182.

  14. Siddiqi, Challenge to Apollo, p. 362.

  15. Scott and Leonov, p. 77.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Siddiqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 372-373.

  18. “Salyut, Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space, A Technical Memorandum,” Washington, D.C.: Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, December 1983, pp. 10-11.

  19. Scott and Leonov, p. 77.

  20. Ibid., pp. 53, 79; Khrushchev, pp. 686-687, 691-692; see also, Yaroslav Golovanov and Sergei Korolev, The Apprenticeship of a Space Pioneer, translated by M. M. Samokhvalov and H. C. Creighton, Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1975, and Korolev: Fakty i mify, Moscow: Nauka, 1994.

  21. Scott and Leonov, p. 78.

  22. Ibid; Memoir of Evgeniy V. Shabrov in Dorogi v kosmos, edited by Yu. A. Moszhorin and others, Moscow: Izdatel’stvo MAI, 1992, p. 179.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Scott and Leonov, p. 99.

  25. Ibid. p. 100.

  26. Ibid., 105.

  27. Scott and Leonov, p. 109.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, pp. 14-15; Gorn, pp. 100, 103.

  33. Ibid., pp. 103, 108.

  34. Astronaut Biographical Data, inhttp://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/whiteeh.html.

  35. Burrows, pp. 358-359; Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood, “Four Days and a ‘Walk,’” On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini, pp. 1-3 see http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/toc.htm.

  36. Hacker and Grimwood, pp. 1-2.

  37. Seamans, pp. 62-63.

  38. Heppenheimer, Countdown, p. 222; see also http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/astrobios.htm.

  39. Heppenheimer, Countdown, pp. 222-223.

  40. Reynolds, pp. 109-110; Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, New York: Penguin Books, 1995, pp. 141-143.

  41. Seamans, p. 67; see http://history.nasa.gov./ap11ann/astrobios.htm.

  42. Gorn, p. 116.

  43. Burrows, pp. 362-363.

  44. Burrows, pp. 364-369, 388-390; Asif Siddiqi, “Robotic U.S. Missions to the Moon,” pp. 1-2, U. S. Centennial of Flight Commission, http://centennialofflight.gov/essay_cat/11.htm

  45. Ibid.

  46. Burrows, pp. 391-394; “Robotic U.S. Missions to the Moon,” p. 2.

  47. “Soviet Lunar Missions,” http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html; Reynolds, Apollo, p. 59.

  48. Burrows, p. 354 and Reynolds, Apollo, p. 59.

  49. “Robotic U.S. Missions to the Moon,” p. 2.

  50. Reynolds, Apollo, p. 59.

  51. Burrows, p. 395, 401-402.

  52. “Soviet Lunar Missions,” ibid.

  53. Asif Siddiqi, “Exploration of the Inner Planets,” pp. 1-2, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay_cat/11.htm.

  54. “Exploration of the Inner Planets,” pp. 2-3; Burrows, pp. 460-461.

  55. Dwayne Day, “Exploration of the Outer Planets,” p. 1, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay_cat/11.htm.

  56. Dwayne Day, “Commercial Communications Satellites,” pp 1-2, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission,” http://www.centennialofflight,gov/essay_at/11.htm.

  CHAPTER 7

  1. Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, p. 7.

  2. Apollo: Expeditions to the Moon, “A Perspective on Apollo,” in http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/toc.html.

  3. Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, p. 8.

  4. Burrows, p. 334.

  5. Gorn, p. 112; Burrows, p. 370.

  6. Ibid., p. 370.

  7. Gorn, p. 112; Burrows, p. 370.

  8. Burrows, pp. 370-371; Reynolds, Apollo, p. 81.

  9. Burrows, p. 371.

  10. Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, pp. 8-9; Gorn, p. 149.

  11. Gorn, p. 107.

  12. Arnold S. Levine, “Managing NASA in the Apollo Era,” Introduction, p. 2, http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4102/intro.htm; and Burrows, p. 372.

  13. Burrows, pp. 405-406.

  14. Apollo: Expeditions to the Moon, “An All-Up Test for the First Flight,” http://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-3-4.html.

  15. Gorn, pp. 121, 123.

  16. Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, pp. 11-12; Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, p. 16; Kelly A. Giblin, “Fire in the Cockpit,” Invention and Technology Magazine, Vol. 13, Issue 4 (Spring 1998), pp. 1-7, at www.AmericanHeritage.com.

  17. Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, pp. 17-18; http://www.hq.NASA.gov/office/pao/history/Apollo204/chariot.html.

  18. Burrows, pp. 410-411; Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, p. 24; www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/Webb.

  19. “Quiet Victims of Soviet Space Exploration,” http://english/pravda.ru/main/2003/26/43726.html; John Charles, “Could the CIA Have Prevented the Apollo 1 Fire?,” The Space Review; see www.thespacereview.com/article/797/1; “The Oxygen Question,” Time, February 10, 1967 in www.time.com.

  20. Scott and Leonov, pp. 192-193.

  21. Ibid., pp. 197-198; Sidiqqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 576-590; Chertok, Rakety i lyudi, goryachiye dni kholodnoi voiny, Book 3, Moscow: Mashinostroyeniye, 1999, pp. 445-458.

  22. Roger E. Bilstein, “Aerospace Alphabet: ABMA, ARPA, MSFC,” Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/ Saturn Launch Vehicles, pp. 1-2, http://history.nasa.gov/SP4206/ch2.htm.

  23. Roger Bilstein, “Missions, Modes, and Manufacturing,” Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles, p. 17, http://history. nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm.

  24. Launius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, p. 16.

  25. Burrows, pp. 261, 265; Cadbury, pp. 187-188.

  26. David West Reynolds, Apollo, p. 264.

  27. Burrows, p. 373.

  28. Reynolds, Apollo, p. 82-83.

  29. Brian Berger, “Agency Spotlight: Weathering the Storms at NASA,” http://space.com/spacenews/archive06/Stennis_051506.html.

  30. Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, pp. 154-156.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Seamans, pp. 52-53.

  33. National Intelligence Estimate, Number 11-1-65, submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence, concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board, dated 27 January, 1965, p. 1.

  34. Ibid., p. 12.

  35. Chertok, Rakety i lyudi, Goryachiye dni kholodnoi voiny, Book 3, pp. 360-379.

  36. Quoted in James Harford, “Korolev, Mastermind of the Soviet Space Program,” Cosmos, Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.: Vol. 8 (1998), p. 59.

  37. Scott and Leonov, p. 144; Chertok, Rakety i lyudi, Goryachiye dni kholodnoi voiny, Book 3, pp. 360-379; Sidiqqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 513-515.

  38. Ronald D. Humble, The Soviet Space Programme, London: Routledge, 1989, p. 10; Sidiqqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 517-521.

  39. Ibid., pp. 395-396.

  40. Ibid., pp. 483-511; Harford, Korolev, pp. 258-268.

  41. Burrows, p. 419.

  42. Scott and Leonov, pp. 239-240; Cadbury, pp. 323-324; Sidiqqi, Challenge to Apollo, pp. 688-691.

  43. Cadbury, p. 338.

  44. “Project: Apollo 8” (Press Kit), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1968, pp. 1-2.

  45. Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1
974, pp. 296-297.

  46. Collins, p. 296.

  47. Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 72-73; Chaikin, p. 59.

  48. Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 73-74; Chaikin, pp. 76-77.

  49. Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 80; Burrows, p. 417.

  50. Chaikin, pp. 60-67.

  51. Crouch, p. 218.

  52. Chaikin, pp. 68, 80.

  53. “Crawler-Transporter” in http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/crawler.html.

  54. Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 85, 92, 96.

  55. Chaikin, p. 80-81.

  56. Dwayne A. Day, “Saturn’s fury: Effects of a Saturn 5 launch pad explosion,” The Space Review, www.thespacereview.com/article/591/1; Reynolds, Apollo, p. 85.

  57. Chaikin, pp. 86-88.

  58. “Project: Apollo 8,” p. 4; Chaikin, p. 89.

  59. Collins, p. 379.

  60. Burrows, pp. 375-376.

  61. Collins, p. 278.

  62. Ibid. p. 279.

  63. “The Lunar Module Computer,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://abc.net/au/science/moon/computer.htm and James E. Tomayko, Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience, “The need for an on-board computer,” Chapter Two, http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-1.html.

  64. Chaikin, p. 72.

  65. Cyrus Farivar, “In Computer Years, Apollo Replica’s an Antique,” New York Times, Feb. 10, 2005.

  66. Chaikin, p. 73.

  67. Collins, p. 310.

  68. Chaikin, p. 107.

  69. Ibid., pp. 121-122.

  70. Ibid., pp. 112-113, 119; Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 110-111; Burrows, p. 420.

  71. Burrows, pp. 419-421.

  72. Ibid., p. 374.

  73. Chaikin, p. 136.

  74. Reynolds, Apollo, pp. 124-125.

  75. Ibid., pp. 125, 128; Chaikin, p. 141.

  76. Ibid., pp. 152-156.

  77. Ibid., pp. 157-159; Reynolds, Apollo, p. 128.

  78. Chaikin, Ibid.; Reynolds, Apollo, p. 128.

  79. Collins, p. 296.

  80. “Apollo 11 Landing Mission,” Press Kit, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., dated July 6, 1969, pp. 1 and 3.

  81. Collins, p. 323.

  82. Ibid., p. 379.

  83. “Project: Apollo 11,” Press Kit, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., pp. 4-6.

  84. Collins, pp. 387-388.

  85. Collins, p. 400; Chaikin, pp. 192-200.

  EPILOGUE

  1. Craig Covault, “Blame It on Nixon,” Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 19/26, 2007, pp. 82-85.

  2. Nick Allen, “Russia’s Space Odyssey (Miracles on a Shoestring),” Russian Life, September 2003 (online).

  3. Craig Covault, “Russian Exploration,” Aviation Week & Space Technology, pp. 154-155, July 17, 2006.

  4. Marc Kaufman, “N.M. County Passes Tax to Fund Spaceport,” The Washington Post, p. A3, April 6, 2007; Ed Regis, “Field of Dreams,” Air & Space, pp. 66-67, April/May 2007.

  5. Frank Morring, Jr., “‘New Space,’” Aviation Week & Space Technology, pp. 44-45, December 11, 2006.

  6. Frank Morring, Jr., “Not Just for Superpowers,” Aviation Week & Space Technology, pp. 71-75, March 19/26, 2007.

  7. Mike Schneider, “NASA Worries about 5-year gap after shuttle retires,” http://usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-03-30-spaceflight-gap_N.htm.

  8. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “State of the ‘Vision Thing,’” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2004.

  INDEX

  A

  A-1 rocket

  A-2 rocket

  A-3 rocket

  A-4 rocket see V-2 rockets

  A-5 rocket

  Able (monkey)

  Adenauer, Konrad

  Aerial surveillance

  Aerojet-General

  Aerojet LR

  engine

  Agena

  Albring, Werner

  Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz”: Apollo

  photo insert; background

  Gemini

  training photo insert

  Allen, H. Julian

  American Telephone and

  Telegraph (AT&T):

  satellites

  Anders, William A.

  Animals:

  pace flights

  photo insert

  Ansari X-Prize

  Apollo

  photo insert

  Apollo

  Apollo

  photograph from

  Apollo

  Apollo

  photo insert

  Apollo

  photo insert

  Apollo

  photo insert

  Apollo

  Apollo

  Apollo

  Apollo

  Apollo

  Apollo

  Apollo missions:

  administration

  buildup

  command and service module (CSM)

  conception

  costs

  Direct Ascent approach

  Earth orbit rendezvous (EOR)

  facilities

  historical triumph

  landing site selection launch requirements

  lunar module

  photo insert; lunar orbital rendezvous (LOR)

  navigation

  onboard computer

  parking orbit

  reentry

  Saturn rockets

  support from

  Kennedy

  technical specifications

  training

  photo insert; weight

  Apollo-Soyuz mission

  Armstrong, Neil A.: Apollo

  photo insert; background

  Gemini

  response to Sputnik launch

  training photo insert

  Army Ballistic Missile Agency

  (ABMA)

  Asimov, Isaac

  Astronauts:

  popularity

  selection

  spacecraft control

  splashdown

  training

  photo insert

  Atlas Able rocket

  Atlas-Agena rocket

  Atlas-Centaur rocket

  Atlas rockets: carrying

  tape recorded message

  development

  development

  recommendations

  engines

  explosions

  failure

  Friendship

  fuel

  fuel tank problems

  launch pads

  launch procedures

  launching Agena

  Mercury program

  and missile gap

  satellite launches

  thinness

  Atmosphere

  Atomic power

  Aurora

  B

  B-29 Superfortress

  B-36 bomber

  B-47 bomber

  B-50 bomber

  Baikonur cosmodrome

  Kazakhstan: construction

  photo insert; design

  funding

  living conditions

  location

  map

  milestones

  population

  secrecy

  size

  U.S. reconnaissance

  weather

  Baker (monkey)

  Baruch, Bernard M.

  Bassett, Charles

  Bean, Alan

  Becker, Karl

  Bell, David

  Belyayev, Pavel

  Berkner, Lloyd

  Binnie, Brian

  Blagonravov, Anatoliy

  Blass, Josef

  Bleichrode, Germany

  Bondarenko, Valentin

  Bondaryuk, Mikhail M.

  Bonestell, Chesley

  Borman, Frank: Apollo

  photo insert; Gemini

  Borman, Sue photo insert Boym, Svetlana

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Bromley, William

  Bruckner, Wilbur

  Bumper 7 rocket

  Bumper V-2 rocket Bumper WAC rocket Bund
y, McGeorge

  Buran (space shuttle)

  Burrows, William

  Bush, George W.

  Bykovskiy, Valery F.

  C

  Caidin, Martin

  Camp Dora, Germany

  Cape Canaveral (spaceport)

  Florida:

  construction

  design

  Launch Complex

  location

  map

  NASA facility

  public observation of launches

  photo insert; public openness

  Redstone missile launch

  role as spaceport

  safety

  similarity to Peenemünde

  surrounding economy

  see also Kennedy

  Space Center, Cape

  Canaveral, Florida;

  Carpenter, M. Scott

  photo insert

  Centaur rocket

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Cernan, Eugene

  Chaffee, Roger

  photo insert

  Chaikin, Andrew

  Challenger (space shuttle)

  Chapman, Sydney 59 Chekunov, Boris S.

  Chelomei, Vladimir N.: moon

  race

  rivalry with

  Sergei Korolev

  rocket design

  Cheranovsky, B. I.: glider

  photo insert

  Chertok, Boris

  Chimpanzees: space flights

  China, People’s Republic of:

  space program

  Chrysler Corporation:

 

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