Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [172]
“No greater opportunity will ever be present”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 149.
“The issue of [Sputnik], if properly handled”: Ibid.
183 “Its velocity was breathtaking”: Woods, LBJ, p. 262.
“making cowboy love”: Ibid., p. 263.
184 Go to Congress, he urged Ike: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 147.
“We do not, as of yet, know if the satellite is sending out encoded messages” and all other quotes from October 10, 1957, NSC meeting: Memorandum on the 339th meeting of the National Security Council, Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.Eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/sputnik/summaryofdiscussion339thmtgoctl 119571ofl4.pdf.
186 “The country will support it”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 20.
announcing that the Vanguard program would launch “a small satellite sphere”: http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/sputnik/pressconferenceoct91957pg.lpdf.
“We who could coldly appraise”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 160.
187 “far, far out on a limb”: Ibid., p. 162.
“I had neither money nor authority”: Ibid.
9: Something for the Holidays
188 “Just another Korolev launch”: Nicholas Daniloff, The Kremlin and the Kosmos (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), p. 65; see also Harford, Korolev, p. 122.
189 The man whose popularity had so intimidated Joseph Stalin: Thumbnail bio of Zhukov is drawn from http://www.worldatwar.net/biography/z/Zhukov. See also Albert Axell, Marshal Zhukov: The Man Who Beat Hitler (London: Longman, 2003).
190 “Where you find Zhukov, you find Victory”: http://www.worldatwar.net/biography/z/Zhukov.
191 Khrushchev had unilaterally slashed troop forces by a staggering 2 million men: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 379.
191 “shark fodder”: Ibid.
a further round of three-hundred-thousand-troop reductions: Ibid.
“Some voices of dissatisfaction were heard”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 43.
“I can’t go to battle with generals who have to travel with field hospitals”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 225.
192 “He assumed so much power”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 44.
“Father feared that Zhukov saw General Eisenhower as an example”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, September 15, 2006.
“I see what Zhukov is up to”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 44.
“saboteur schools”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, September 15, 2006.
“a South American-style military takeover”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 44.
193 “His unreasonable activities leave us no choice”: Ibid., p. 45.
194 a small and unobtrusive squib would appear on the back page of Pravda: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 250.
The evening sessions had run well past ten: The account of the meeting in Kiev is drawn from telephone interviews with Sergei Khrushchev in September 2006 and from his memoir.
195 “I’ll be back”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, pp. 259-60; also author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, September 15, 2006.
196 the lead story in Pravda on the morning of October 5: Golovanov, Korolev, p. 533.
197 orbital decay: I. V. Meshcheriakov, V Mire Kosmonavtiki (Nizhny Novgorod: Russki Kupets, 1996), pp. 35-36.
crossing the equator every ninety-six minutes at a sixty-five-degree angle: Valentin Glushko, ed., Malenkaya Entsiklopedia Kosmonavtiki (Moscow: Sovetskaya Entsiklopedia, 1970), p. 520.
The exact number would turn out to be ninety-two days: Ibid.
198 “We were all too focused”: Golovanov, Korolev, p. 543.
“It was late”: Chertok, Rakety I Lyudi, vol. 2, p. 195.
“We thought the satellite”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 104.
“This date”: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 197.
“The whole world is abuzz”: Golovanov, Korolev, p. 524.
199 green for foreign press clippings, red for decoded diplomatic traffic: Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev, p. 128.
“The achievement is immense”: Manchester Guardian, October 6, 1957.
“Myth has become reality”: Le Figaro, October 7, 1957.
“A turning