Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [164]
67 “For the sake of my sole son”: Harford, Korolev, p. 50.
Glushko had also been in the camps: Rakhmanin, ed., Odnazhy I Navsegda, pp. 424-33.
Korolev had engaged in a long-running affair with Glushko’s sister-in-law: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 89.
68 “Sergei Pavlovich, your Horche is beautiful, but it’s not a fighter plane”: Chertok, Rockets and People, pp. 350-51.
“I’m not afraid of anyone in the whole wide world”: Ibid.
69 The solution was the RD-107: Valentin Glushko, Raketnie Dvigateli GDL-0KB (Moscow: Izdatelstvo Agentsva Pechatiy Novosti, 1975), pp. 328-29.
69 But if the central R-7 engine block was designed to operate longer, the four peripheral boosters could be jettisoned: Novosti Kosmonavtiki, vol. 15, no. 7 (August 2005), pp. 67-69.
70 Korolev favored using small gimbaled thrusters: Ibid., vol. 15, no. 8 (July 2005), pp. 56-59.
But Glushko was violently opposed to the idea: Yuri Semenov, ed., Raketno Kosmicheskaya Korporatsiya Energiya Imeni S. P. Koroleva (Korolev: RKK Energiya, 1996), p. 75.
could withstand the heat that would be generated during the 24,000-feet-per-second atmospheric reentry: Ivan Prudnikov, Aviatsiya I Kosmonavtika, vol. 1, no. 2 (1994), p. 39.
postimpulse boost: Timofei Varfolomeyev, Space Flight Magazine (UK), August 1995, p. 262.
71 “I’ve been sent the protocol of the latest tests”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 124. how many pounds of thrust were produced per each pound of propellant consumed per second: Wernher von Braun et al., Space Travel: A History (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), p. 136.
But Glushko’s engines had come up short, at 239 and 303.1 respectively: Georgiy Vetrov, ed., S. P. Korolev I Evo Dela: Svet I Teni v Istorii Kosmonavtiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1998), pp. 220-21.
72 “At present time, we are completing static testing of the rocket”: Ibid., p. 369.
WE WANT BREAD, FREEDOM, AND TRUTH: Filip Lesniak, Biuletyn Instituty Pamiecy Narodowek, at http://www.ipn.gov.pl/biuletyn5_12.htm.
73 thirteen-year-old Romek Strzalkowski fell dead: Polish Academic Information Center, University of Buffalo, at http://www.info-poland.buffalo.edu/exhib/Poznan/june1956.html.
“The Poles were vilifying the Soviet Union”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, 1st edition, p. 198.
74 “From the airport we went to”: Ibid., p. 200.
“To all those suffering under communist slavery”: http://www.historylearn ingsite.co.uk/hungary_1956.htm.
eighty were killed: http://www.info-poland.buffalo.edu/exhib/Poznan/june 1956.html.
75 “The Soviet government is prepared to enter into the appropriate negotiations”: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/doc6.pdf.
“This utterance is one of the most significant to come out”: Grose, Gentleman Spy, p. 348.
defiantly summoned the Soviet ambassador, Yuri Andropov: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/doc7.pdf.
“We have no choice”: Minutes of October 31, 1956, Presidium meeting, at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/doc6.pdf.
76 “Bombs, by God!”: Grose, Gentleman Spy, p. 349.
“The Soviet Air Force has bombed the Hungarian capital”: See online transcript at http://news.bbc.co.Uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_2739000/2739039.stm.
77 “Khrushchev’s days are numbered”: Grose, Gentleman Spy, p. 337.
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78 As the incumbent, Ike was able to rise above the political fray: Dunar, America in the Fifties, p. 123.
79 “In regard to the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles”: Erik Bergaust, Wernher von Braun (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1976), p. 245.
“it will be better for the country”: Ibid.
80 “If we let down our standards to speed production”: Harris, A New Command, p. 134.
“The lack of a sound, experienced, military-technical organization”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 57.
81 “In all honesty, I do not think”: Ibid., p. 60.
“Can you picture a war”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 410.
“somewhat distorted and exaggerated picture”: Worden, Rise of the Fighter Generals, p. 82.
“satisfactory state of reliability”: Ibid.
“I don’t know how to show . . . teeth with a missile