by Von Hardesty
budget
creation
early satellite launches
expansion
mandate
milestones
NERVA program
publicity
size
support facilities
National Defense Education
Act
National Indications Center
National Intelligence Estimate
(NIE)
National Security Council
(NSC)
Navaho ramjet cruise missile
Navigation satellites
Nebel, Rudolf
Nedelin, Mitrofan I.
NERVA engines
Nie Haishheng
NII-
(research institute)
Moscow, Russia
Nikolayev, Andrian
photo insert
Nixon, Richard M.: NASA
budget cuts
presidential campaign
support for space
program
NK-15 engines
Nordhausen area, Germany:
Soviet occupation
V-2 rocket program
Nova rockets
Nuclear power: for spacecraft
O
Oberth, Hermann
OKB-1 (Special Design Bureau 1)
Operation Paperclip
Opportunity (Mars rover)
Orbital mechanics
Orbital velocity
Orbiter project
Orbits: elliptical
geosynchronous
parking
polar
Orion project
P
Paine, Thomas
Peenemünde, Germany: design of facility
evacuation
Soviet occupation
rocket program
weapons research
Petrov, Nikolai
Petrovsky, Boris
Phillips, Samuel
Phobos (Mars moon)
Pickering, William
Pilyugin, Nikolay A.
Pioneer
Pioneer
Pioneer
Pioneer
Pioneer
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 11
Pioneer probes
Plesetsk cosmodrome
Polaris missiles
Ponomareva, Valentina
Popovich, Pavel
Powers, Francis Gary
Prostreishiy sputnik see Sputnik Proton rockets
R
R-1 rockets
R-2 rockets
R-3 rockets
R-5 rockets
R-5M rockets
R-7 rockets: basis of Soviet space triumphs
development
engines
guidance system
launch site
lunar exploration
payload capacity
satellite launches
testing
Vostok mission
warhead 53–54
R-16 ICBM: explosion
fuel
launch site
navigation
Radar networks
Raketenflugplatz, Reinickendorf, Germany
RAND Corporation: creation
ICBM report
satellite report
56–57 Ranger
Ranger
Ranger
Ranger
Ranger 7
Ranger program
Raushenbakh, B. V. 114 RD-107 engine
55 RD-108 engine
55 RD-253 engine 222 Rebrov, Mikhail
Reconnaissance aircraft 46–47 Reconnaissance satellites
Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville
Alabama: facility
IRBM development
name change
Redstone rocket development
see also George C. Marshall
Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama; Redstone rocket: development
fuel storage
guidance system
launch
livery
Mercury program
modified to be Jupiter-C
primate passengers
satellite launches
Saturn
testing reentry vehicles
warhead
Reentry
dangers
heat shields
human space flight
tragedies
vehicles
Reinickendorf, Germany 13 Rendezvous
Riedel, Klaus
140 Robotic missions
flyby
landing
lunar
Mars
orbiting
Outer
Planets
solar system
Venus
195 Rocketdyne
134 Rockets: design
failure
fuel systems
incremental advance in design
launch site protocols
livery
multistage
rotational assist
scientific research
silhouette
toy
photo insert
Roswell, New Mexico: rocket test range
140 Rotational assist
164 Rudnev, Konstantin N.
Russia: space
program
Ryabikov, Vasiliy M.
Ryan, Cornelius
S
Sakharov, Andrei
Salinger, Pierre
Salyut space station
Sandburg, Carl
84 Satellites: commercial
communications
first artificial
geosynchronous orbit
intelligence applications
military applications
navigation
photo-reconnaissance
proposals
reconnaissance
scientific applications
weather
Saturn I
photo insert
Saturn IB
Saturn (planet): robotic probes
Saturn rockets: funding
launches photo insert;
NASA control
testing
Saturn V: Apollo missions
photo insert; assembly facilities
blast radius
engines
launches
photo insert; livery
size
Skylab
testing
transport
Schirra, Walter M.: Apollo 7
Gemini program
importance of reentry
Mercury program
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. 250 Schmitt, Harrison
Schweickart, Russell (Rusty)
Science fiction
Scott, David
photo insert
Seamans, Robert
Sedov, Leonid
See, Elliot
Semyorka see R-7 rockets Sergeant rockets
Shenzhou 5 spacecraft 250 Shenzhou 6 spacecraft
Shepard, Alan B.: Apollo
Mercury program
photo insert; training photo insert
Shubnikov, Georgiy M.
Siddiqi, Asif 52
Sidey, Hugh
Sigma 7 spacecraft 173 Skylab
Slayton, Donald K. “Deke”
Society for Space Travel see
Verein für Raumschiffahrt
(VfR)
Solar wind 91
Solovyeva, Irina 176 Sorensen, Ted
121 Soviet Union: control and tracking stations
human moon landing
ICBM development
lunar exploration
military strength
missile defense system
organization problems in space program
propaganda value of space program
race to get German V-2 rocket technology
satellite development
secrecy of space program
space milestones
> photo insert; space race
spacecraft design philosophy
135 Soyuz
213 Soyuz
Soyuz
Soyuz
Soyuz
Soyuz missions: economics
reentry
spacecraft
tragedies
Soyuz T
Soyuz TM
Space photography
Space race: and Cold War
definition Soviet efforts
U.S. concerns
U.S. efforts
173 Space shuttles
Space stations: International
Space Station (ISS)
Mir
in popular culture
Salyut
Skylab
246 Space tourism
249 Space travel: in popular culture
Soviet milestones
photo insert; U.S. milestones
Space walks: dangers
first
photo insert; Soviet
photo insert; U.S.
photo insert
Spacecraft: control procedures
design philosophies
financial costs
landing
return to earth
rotational assist
splashdown
Spaceports: commercial
design
141 SpaceShipOne
249 Speer, Albert
16 Spirit (Mars rover)
248 Splashdown: versus landing 135 Sputnik 1: American response
photo insert; design
launch
photo insert; launch vehicle
orbit
popular response
photo insert; press reaction
radio signal
Sputnik 2
photo insert
Sputnik 3 80
Sputnik 4 80
Sputnik 5 80
Spy planes
Spy satellites
196 Stafford, Tom
photo insert
Stalin, Joseph viii, ix
48 Staver, Robert
22 Steering systems
89 Stennis, John C.
Stewart, Homer 64 Stewart Committee 64 Stuhlinger, Ernst 66 Sullivan, Walter
76 Surveyor 1
193 Surveyor 2
Surveyor 3 193
Surveyor missions
Swigert, John 244
T
Technological Capabilities
Panel (TCP)
58 Television: Apollo missions
communications satellites
Gemini missions
Luna missions
Mercury missions
popular space programs
Ranger missions
space-based reconnaissance
V-2 rocket launch
Vanguard launch
Voskhod missions
Vostok missions
Teller, Edward 82
Telstar satellite 196 Tereshkova, Valentina
photo insert Thiel, Walter 3
The Thing (film) 43 Thompson, Floyd L. 211 Thor rockets
Thrust 164
Tikhonravov, Mikhail: rocket design
satellite design
TIROS 106
TIROS 1 102
Titan II: Gemini program
hypergolic fuel
silhouette
Titan missiles
155 Tito, Dennis
Titov, German
Toftoy, Holgar
22 Tragedies: airplane crashes
Apollo I
photo insert; R-16
Soviet
Soyuz 1
space shuttles
test pilots
United States
photo insert
Transit 1B satellite 102 Trichel, Gervais 10 Truman, Harry S.
Truman Doctrine
38 Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Tsyklon rockets
247 Tu-4 bomber 48
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Tupolev, Andrei
A Space Odyssey (film) 44 Tyuratam
see Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
U
U-2 spy plane
United States: evaluation of
Soviet nuclear capabilities
evaluation of Soviet space program
ICBM development
race to get German
V-2 rocket technology
space milestones
spacecraft design philosophy
tracking stations
use of German V-2 rocket technology
UR-500 rocket 221 UR-700 rocket xix Ustinov, Dmitriy
V
V-1 aircraft
V-2 rockets: animal payloads
design
guidance system
later rockets based on its design
launches
photo insert; liquid fuel system
London bombardment
photo insert; race to secure technology
scientific uses
slave labor in manufacturing
photo insert; specialists recruited by Soviet Union
specialists recruited by United States
test failures
test range
U.S. intelligence
Valenti, Jack
Van Allen, James
Van Allen Belts
92 Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vanguard project: costs
development
failure
photo insert; launches
model
NASA control
satellite
Vehicle Assembly Building
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Venera 2 195
Venera 3 195
Venera 7 195
Venera space probe photo insert
Venus (planet): robotic missions
Verein für Raumschiffahrt
(VfR)
Verne, Jules
164 Viking rockets
77 von Braun, Iris Careen 33 von Braun, Maria 33 von Braun
Wernher: Apollo missions
Cape Canaveral
Florida
education
evacuation of
Peenemünde, Germany facility
Explorer
German rocket program
Jupiter
IRBM
launch site protocol
launch site selection
leadership
Mars expeditions
moon race and NASA
Nazi ties
parade photo insert; popular writing
Redstone Arsenal,
Huntsville, Alabama
Redstone rocket development
relationship with John B. Medaris
rocket design
rocket use in space exploration
satellite development
Saturn rockets
photo insert; space exploration plans
surrender to
Americans
photo insert; V-2 rocket
Verein für
Raumschiffahrt
White Sands, New Mexico
von Kármán, Theodore 93 Voskhod
179 Voskhod
184 Voskhod missions
Vostok 2
131 Vostok 3
174 Vostok 4
175 Vostok 5 175
Vostok 6
176 Vostok missions: group flights
human space flight
launch site
launch vehicle
redesign as Voskhod
reentry
spacecraft control
test launch 108
W
WAC-Corporal research rocket
Wallops Island test facility
Virginia 101
The War of the Worlds (film) 43 Ward, Effie 139
Weather satellites
Webb, James E.: Apollo project
background
NASA leadership,
Wegener, Peter 141 Weightlessness: impact on human body
s
patial disorientation