by Von Hardesty
training
photo
insert Wells, H.G.
Wheelon, Albert “Bud”
Whipple, Fred
White, Edward H.: Apollo 1
photo insert; background
Gemini program
White Knight aircraft
White Sands Proving
Ground
New Mexico: inadequacy
living conditions for Germans
location
size
V-2 rocket program
photo insert
Wiesner, Jerome
Wolfe, Tom
Women: cosmonauts
first in space
photo insert
WS-117L satellite
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X-15 spacecraft
Y
Yang Liwei
Yangel, Mikhail K.: launch site
rivalry with Sergei
Korolev
rocket
design
Yeager, Chuck
Yegorov, Boris
Yeltsin, Boris
Yerkina, Zhanna
Young, John: Apollo
photo insert; Apollo
Gemini
Gemini
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Zapolyarniy
Zarem, Abe
Zenith rockets
Zond
Zond
Zond series
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Maps by National Geographic Book Publishing Group and Justin Morrill, The M Factory.
Front matter, Otis Imboden/NGS Archives; Front matter: Forward, Conway Stuart/Sipa; Introduction, Rykoff Collection/CORBIS; Prologue, Ullstein Bild/The Granger Collection, NY; Chapter 1, dpa/dpa/CORBIS; Chapter 2, NASA; Chapter 2, NASA; Chapter 3, Bill Bridges/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images; Chapter 3, NRO; Chapter 4, AFP/Getty Images; Chapter 4, NASA, courtesy J.L. Pickering; Chapter 5, Doug Martin; Chapter 5, NASA, courtesy Kipp Teague; Chapter 5, NASA, courtesy Kipp Teague; Chapter 6, NASA; Chapter 7, NASA; Epilogue, NASA, courtesy Kipp Teague.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
VON HARDESTY is a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where he has worked since 1979. His publications include Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space, Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency, Lindbergh: Flight’s Enigmatic Hero, Stalin’s Aviation Gulag, and Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941–1945, among many other publications. He holds a doctorate in Russian history from Ohio State University and has been a visiting fellow at the St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and the Hall Center at the University of Kansas. He has also served as a commentator on several documentaries for the History Channel and PBS, including NOVA. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Grottoes, Virginia.
GENE EISMAN has served as researcher and consulting editor for several books, including Air Force One. A former corporate public relations executive in Washington, D.C., he is a volunteer researcher at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and an expert on Soviet and Russian aviation. Eisman has traveled widely in Russia and to more than 50 other countries. He and his wife, Charlene Currie, live in Bethesda, Maryland.
SERGEI N. KHRUSHCHEV, son of former Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, is a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He is the author of Nikita Khrushchev: Crisis and Missiles and Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Super Power, among numerous other books and publications. An active participant in the Soviet space race as an electrical engineer, Khrushchev served from 1958-1968 as the deputy section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design, including moon vehicles and the “Proton,” the world’s largest space booster. He and his wife, Valentina Golenko, live in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Copyright © 2007 Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman
All rights reserved. Reproduction of the whole or any part of the contents without written permission is prohibited.
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0209-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hardesty, Von, 1939-
Epic rivalry: the inside story of the Soviet and American space race / by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman; foreword by Sergei Khruschev.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Space race. 2. Astronautics--United States--History--20th century. 3. Astronautics--Soviet Union--History--20th century. I. Eisman, Gene. II. Khrushchev, Sergei. III. Title.
TL788.5.H37 2007
629.409’046--dc22
2007017393
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