by Von Hardesty
Redstone rocket
production
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clifton, Chester
Cold War: onset
public anxieties
and space race
Collier’s
Collins, Michael: Apollo
Apollo
photo insert; comments on Soviet space program
Gemini
Columbia (space shuttle)
Command and service module
Communications satellites
Computers: onboard
Concorde (supersonic airliner)
The Conquest of Space (Ley)
Conrad, Charles “Pete”
Convair
Cooper, L. Gordon
Corey, Calvin
Corona project
Cosmonauts: landing
rank
reentry
selection
spacecraft control
women
photo insert
Cosmos lunar probes
Crossfield, Scott
Cunningham, Walter
Cycone rocket
D
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
(film)
Destination Moon (film)
Discoverer
Discoverer project
see also Corona project;
Discovery (space shuttle)
Disney, Walt
Disneyland: “Tomorrowland”
attraction
Dnepropetrovsk
Dogs: space flights
photo insert Dolgov, Pyotr
Dornberger, Walter
Dorten, Germany
Douglas Aircraft Company
Dryden, Hugh L.
Duke, Charlie
Dulles, Allen
Durant, Frederick
Duranty, Walter
Dyson, Freeman
E
Early Bird satellite
Earth: atmosphere
Earthrise
photo insert Eastman Kodak: lunar camera development
Echo satellite
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Eisele, Donn
Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
astronaut selection criteria
concern about Soviet military threat
creation of NASA
intelligence gathering
missile gap
reluctance to pursue human space flight
Sputnik repercussions
support for satellite programs
White Sands accident
Elliptical orbits
Energiya rocket
Escape velocity
European Space Agency (ESA)
Explorer
Explorer
Explorer
Explorer satellites
Extravehicular activity see
Space walks
F
F-1 engines
Faget, Maxime
Faith
spacecraft
Favreau, Walter
Fei Junlong
Feoktistov, Konstantin
Freedom
spacecraft
photo insert
Freedom of space
Freeman, Theodore
Friction: atmospheric
Friedman, Herb
Friendship
spacecraft
G
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich:
background
first human space flight
honors
photo insert; medical tests photo insert; orbit
with other cosmonauts photo insert; secrecy of flight
spacecraft control
Gaidukov, Lev M.
Gallai, Mark
Gemini 1
Gemini 3
Gemini 4
Gemini 6
Gemini 6-A
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 10
Gemini 11
Gemini 12
Gemini program
capsule recovery
launch site
milestones
Mission Control
onboard computers
rendezvous and docking
simulator
space walk
spacecraft design
Titan II rockets
General Dynamics
George C. Marshall Space
Flight Center, Huntsville,
Alabama
see also Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville, Alabama;
Geosynchronous orbits
Germany: rocket development
rocket livery
rocket testing
U.S.-Soviet race for rocket
technology
Gilruth, Robert
Glenn, Annie
Glenn, David
Glenn, John H.
photo insert Glenn, Lyn
Glenn L. Martin Company
Glennan, T. Keith
Glushko, Valentin: engine
design
ivalry with
Sergei Korolev
Sputnik launch
Goddard, Robert
Grissom, Virgil “Gus”: Apollo
photo insert; background
funeral photo insert
Gemini program
Mercury program
Gröttrup, Helmut
Gröttrup, Irmgard
Guggenheim, Daniel
Guidance systems
Gurevich, Ilya M.
H
H-1 rocket engines
Habler, Heinz
Hagerty, James
Haise, Fred
Ham (chimpanzee)
photo insert
Hayden Planetarium, New
York
Heat shields
Heinlein, Robert A.
Hermes ballistic missile
program
Hickam, Homer H.
Hitler, Adolf
Hoch, Johannes
Hoover, George
Houbolt, John
Hubble Space Telescope
Hughes Aircraft
Human space flight: dangers
Eisenhower’s opposition
financial costs
Kennedy’s support
life-support systems
lunar landing
lunar orbiting
Mission Control
physiological effects
proposals
reentry
in science fiction
spacecraft design
Hydrogen bombs
I
India: space program
Intelligence gathering: satellite
based
space photography
Technical
Capabilities Panel (TCP)
U-2 spy plane
Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles (ICBMs): missile gap
precision
Soviet development
U.S. development
Intermediate-Range Ballistic
Missile (IRBM)
International Aeronautical
Federation (IAF)
International Geophysical Year
(IGY): conception
Explorer I launch
proposed satellite launches
satellite launches
Sputnik II launch
Sputnik launch
Vanguard launch
International Space Station
(ISS)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(film)
Irwin, Jim
J
J-2 engines
Japan: space program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), Pasadena
California: Explorer program
leadership
NASA control
Ranger program
satellite development
Surveyor mission
John C. Stennis Space Center
Mississippi
Johnson, Clarence L. “Kelly”
Johnson, Lyndon: missile
gap
Project
Mercury
renaming
NASA facilities
space race report
support for space program
Joint Long Range Proving
Ground, Cape Canaveral,
Florida
Juno
rocket
Juno II rocket
Jupiter-C Juno II rocket
Jupiter-C rocket
Jupiter (planet): robotic probes
Jupiter rocket: development
engines
launch pads
primate passengers
K
Kamanin, Nikolai
Kammler, Hans
Kaplan, Joseph
Kapustin Yar, Russia
Katushka rockets
Keldysh, Mstislav V.
Kennedy, Jacqueline: Project
Mercury launch
Kennedy, John F.: election
missile gap
moon race
naming of NASA facilities after him
response to Soviet firsts
space race and Cold War
support for space program
Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral, Florida: launches
photo insert; location
naming
Vehicle
Assembly Building (VAB)
see also Cape Canaveral
(spaceport), Florida; Khomyakov, Mikhail
Khrushchev, Nikita: awarding
Gagarin the Gold Star medal
ICBM
development
patronage of Vladimir
Chelomei
propaganda value of space program
relationship with Sergei
Korolev
release of German rocket scientists
reluctance to enter moon race
removal from power
secrecy
with son
support for space program
Khrushchev, Sergei
Kilgallen, Dorothy
Killian, James
Kimball, Ward
Komarov, Vladimir
photo insert
Korabl-Sputnik satellites:
reentry tests
Korolev, Sergei P.: anonymity
character
death
photo insert; in glider photo insert; human space flight
leadership
moon race
engine design
relationship with Nikita
Khrushchev
rivalry with Mikhail
Yangel
rivalry with
Valentin Glushko
rivalry with Vladimir
Chelomei
rocket development
photo insert; satellite development
secrecy
Soyuz program
space walk techniques
support for
space exploration
at Tereshkova and Nikolayev wedding
photo insert;
Voskhod program
women cosmonauts
Koroleva, Natasha
Kosmos
lunar probe
Kosmos
lunar probe
Kosygin, Aleksei
Krause, Ernst H.
Kummersdorf, Germany:
rocket development
Kuznetsov, Nikolai
L
L1 spacecraft
Laika (dog)
photo insert
Land, Edwin H.
Landing: versus splashdown
Lang, Daniel
Lang, Fritz
Langley Research Center
Launch sites: impact on spacecraft velocity
Lavochkin, Semyon
Lavrov, Svyatislav S.
Lehesten, Germany: Soviet
Leninsk, Kazakhstan see
Baikonur cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan
Leonov, Aleksei: Apollo I
tragedy
Apollo-
Soyuz program
Baikonur living conditions
and other cosmonauts
photo insert; space walk
photo insert;
Voskhod program
Lewis Flight Propulsion
Laboratory, Cleveland,
Ohio
Ley, Willy
Liberty Bell
Lifshitz, Mikhail
Lindbergh, Charles
Liquid-fueled rockets
Little Nell
Livery
LK-1 spacecraft
Lockheed Aircraft
Lockheed Missiles and Space
Company
London, England: V-2
bombardment
photo insert Long-range ballistic missiles:
reentry vehicles (RV)
Lovell, James, Jr.: Apollo
Apollo
Gemini
Gemini
Low, George
Luna 1
Luna 2
Luna 9
Luna 15
Luna spacecraft
Lunar module (LM)
photo insert; computer
design
moon landing
technical problems
testing
Lunar Orbiter
Lunar probes
Lyndon B. Johnson Space
Center, Houston, Texas
photo insert
M
MacLeish, Archibald
Magnus, Kurt
Malina, Frank J.
Malinovsky, Rodion
Malyshev, Vyacheslav
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston, Texas
photo insert
Manning, George
Maps: Baikonur cosmodrome
Kazakhstan
Cape Canaveral
(spaceport), Florida
Mariner 2
Mariner 3
Mariner 4
Mariner 6
Mariner 7
Mariner spacecraft
Mars 1
Mars 5
Mars Lander
Mars (planet): human
missions
photographs
robotic missions
spacecraft fuel sources
Marshall, George
Martin Company
Mathes, Franz
Max (missile)
McDivitt, James A.
McDonnell Aircraft
Corporation: Mercury
program
McElroy, Neil
McNamara, Robert
Mead, Margaret
Mechta spacecraft
Medaris, John B.: opposition
to NASA control of missile program
opposition to NASA creation
relationship with Wernher von Braun
satellite development
Meilerwagon vehicle
Mercury
Mercury program:
announcement
astronauts
photo insert; launch site
milestones
space flights
spacecraft design
Mercury Redstone flights
Meteorology: use of space
photographs
Metraux, Rhoda
MiG-
fighters
Minuteman missiles
Mir space station
Mishin, Vasiliy
Missile gap
Mississippi Test Facility
Mitchell, Ed
Mittelwerk factory, Germany:
Soviet occupation
V-2 rocket program
Modestov, Vladimir
Molniya satellites
Monkeys: space flights
Moon: permanent base
photographs
robotic missions
surface
Moritz (missile)
Movies: space travel themes
; Mueller, George
Murrow, Edward R.
Muscle atrophy
MX-
(ICBM test vehicle)
N
N-1 rocket: design
failures
moon race
size
spaceport
thrust
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
(NASA): administration