Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [165]
82 “We see too few examples of really creative”: Ibid., p. 80.
“The aircraft industry, and particularly the Douglas Aircraft Co.”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, pp. 252-53.
83 “It was not a big decision”: Ernst Stuhlinger, December 8, 1997, interview with Michelle Kelly for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, NASA Oral History Transcript at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/participants.htm.
“Screen them for being Nazis?”: Dennis Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998), p. 41.
84 impregnable blackness: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 70.
“To my continental eyes”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 8.
Fort Bliss, an old cavalry outpost built around the rough adobe walls: http//www.bliss, army.mil/museum/fortblisstexas. htm.
85 “A line of waiters in black suits, white shirts, and bow-ties: Chertok, Rockets and People, p. 241.
“German Scientist Says American Cooking Tasteless”: El Paso Times, December 4, 1946.
“We hold these individuals to be potentially dangerous”: James McGovern, Crossbow and Overcast (New York: William Morrow, 1964), p. 247.
“I never thought we were so poor mentally”: Paul Dickson, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century (New York: Berkley, 2001), p. 61.
86 As wards of the army: Huzel, Peenemünde to Canaveral, p. 215.
“Daily life was quite regulated”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 77.
“SPECIAL WAR DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE. In the event that this card is presented off a military reservation”: Huzel, Peenemünde to Canaveral, p. 223.
they catch a screening of Zorro at the Palace Theatre, go shopping at the Popular Dry Goods Company: http://www.elpasotexas.gov/walkingtours.
87 playing cello in a string quartet of rocket scientists: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 11.
“Prisoners of peace”: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 237.
87 “Frankly we were disappointed”: Daniel Lang, “A Romantic Urge,” New Yorker, November 7, 1951, p. 89.
88 “We’ll put you on ice”: Stuhlinger, NASA 1997 Oral History.
“control of German individuals who might contribute”: http://www.milnet.com/cia/nazi-gold/art04.html.
“threat to world security”: Lieutenant David Akens, Army Ballistic Missile Agency Historical Monograph (Huntsville, Ala.: Redstone Arsenal, 1958), p. 25, at http://www.redstone.army.mil/history.
“We were distrusted aliens”: Bob Ward, Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005), p. 67.
89 when three hundred thousand sorties were flown: http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/quickfax.htm.
“when we might have completely destroyed Russia and not even skinned our elbows”: David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993), p. 25.
“greatest act of stupidity of the McCarthyist period”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 138.
The historic hamlet was home to fifteen thousand genteel southerners: http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/cron2a.html.
90 “We had some concerns here”: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 77.
The fledgling ABC network was backing the venture with $4.5 million in loan guarantees: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 84.
91 whose hourly pay in 1954 had just been increased from seventy cents to a dollar: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 386.
“In our modern world”: March 9, 1955, “Tomorrowland” telecast, Walt Disney Treasures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Burbank, Calif., 2004, stock no. 31749.
The show attracted 42 million viewers: J. P. Telotte, “Disney in Science Fiction Land,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, Spring 2005, http://www.finarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0412/is_l_33/ai_nl3717415.
92 to launch a satellite using a modified Redstone missile for less than $100,000: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 119.
“The atmosphere of the earth acts as a huge shield”: http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/chapter2.html.
93 “I am impressed by the costly consequences”: Ibid.
94 “It must be restated”: Haines and Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1990, p. 59.
“I wouldn’t care if they did”: Bille and Lishock, The First