Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [170]
154 “Technical banditry”: Golovanov, Korolev, p. 538.
“Let’s not make a fuss”: Ibid.
“OK, dear”: A. Polyektov, Kosmodrome Bajkonur; Nachale (Moscow: Veles, 1992), p. 86.
155 “Nobody will rush us”: Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, p. 165.
“T minus ten” and countdown instructions re-created from the following sources: Chekunov recollection in Gerchik, Proryv v Kosmos, pp. 68-73. Official timeline launch card reprinted in Natalia Koroleva, Otets, vol. 2, p. 309.
Also from Chertok, Raketi I Lyudi, vol. 2, pp. 197-98. And from Ishlinskiy, ed., Akademik S. P. Korolev, pp. 448-64.
158 At 116 seconds a fiery cross appeared: Novosti Kosmonavtiki, no. 7, August 1997, p. 9.
The engines had run out of fuel at 295.4 seconds: Ibid,
at 142 miles in altitude instead of 147 miles: Ibid.
“Separation Achieved”: Semenov, ed., Raketno Kosmicheskaya Korporatsiya Energiya, p. 89.
159 “Quiet”: Golovanov, Korolev, p. 540.
“This is music no one has ever heard before”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 164.
“Hold off on the celebrations”: Mozzhorin, ed., Nachalo Kosmichiskoy Eri, p. 64.
160 BEEP, BEEP, BEEP: Ibid.
8: By the Light of a Red Moon
161 a man so hated in Huntsville that some rocket scientists had once burned his effigy in Courthouse Square: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 98.
“We could not shed a single tear”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 152.
162 “Sour Kraut Hill”: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 78.
The jobs of five thousand skilled workers: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 218. bureaucratic guerrilla campaigns that were beginning to take their toll: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 127.
163 “timing his comings and goings so that Grandmother”: Harris, A New Command, p. 7.
over one hundred thousand dollars in his trading account: Ibid., p. 43.
“We must make it perfectly clear”: Bille and Lishoke, The First Space Race, p. 117.
soaring 662 miles high over a 3,335-mile arc: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 130.
“In various languages”: Von Braun et al., Space Travel, p. 156.
164 At fifty-three, he was almost exactly: Neil McElroy’s biographical information can be found at http://www.nndb.com/people/102/000057928.
“Our whole organization was thoroughly fired up”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 154.
“two-star generals were serving drinks to three-star generals”: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 111.
165 the young officer rudely interrupted McElroy: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 155.
“General Gavin was visibly shaken”: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 261.
“Damn bastards”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 131.
“Now look”: Ibid.
166 “Von Braun started to talk as if”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 155.
“We knew they would do it”: Ibid.
“There was no chance”: Bille and Lishoke, The First Space Race, p. 118.
“For God’s sake, cut us loose”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 155.
167 “It was imprudent to admit we had retained those rockets”: Harris, A New Command, p. 155.
“It beeped derisively over our heads”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 156.
168 “Missile number 27 proved our capabilities”: Ibid.
“When you get back to Washington”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 131.
64 percent, according to a Gallup survey: Time, October 14, 1957.
169 “Dear Dick, I had been hoping to play golf this afternoon”: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, vol. 18 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pt. 3, chap. 6, document 365.
“Sherman Adams was cold, blunt, abrasive”: Nixon, RN, p. 198.
“Golf in Newport was enjoyable”: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, vol. 18, pt. 3, chap. 6, document 366.
170 “an economy of abundance”: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 587.
And tax revenues were coming in at a disappointing $72 billion: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 213.
in an effort to trim half a billion dollars from the $3.5 billion monthly defense bill: Robert A. Divine, The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower’s Response to the Soviet Threat (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 119.
170 “The developments of this year”: Ferrell, ed., Eisenhower Diaries, p. 347.