Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [174]
216 “demonstrates that the USSR has outstripped”: Daniloff, The Kremlin and the Kosmos, p. 128.
“the freed and conscientious labor of the people”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 103.
“to be less concerned with the depth of the pile”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 140.
“While we devote our industrial and technological might”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 19.
“It’s time to stop worrying about tail-fins”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 77.
“We’ve become a little too self-satisfied”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 139.
“an intercontinental outer-space raspberry”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 17.
217 “From the echoes of the satellite”: Warshaw, ed., Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency, p. 111.
“The fact that we were able to launch the first Sputnik”: Daniloff, The Kremlin and the Kosmos, p. 127.
“The United States can practically annihilate”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 223.
218 GENTLE IN MANNER, STRONG IN DEED: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 219.
“It misses the whole point”: Warshaw, ed., Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency, p. 112.
General Bruce Medaris watched the address with an equal mix of bewilderment and frustration: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 165.
219 “somewhat cherubic” and “as disarmingly pleasant”: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 88.
Squirrel Hill: Harris, A New Command, p. 147.
“Hang on tight, and I will support you”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 165.
seriously considering quitting the army: Ibid., p. 168.
220 “So far as the public could judge”: Ibid., p. 166.
“The time for talking”: Ibid., p. 169.
“The real tragedy of Sputnik’s victory”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 132.
“could be very damaging to what the President was trying to do”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 169.
a devastating report: Prados, The Soviet Estimate, p. 72.
221 “deeply shocking”: Sherman Adams, First Hand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961), p. 413.
221 “Its disclosure would be inimical”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 221.
“It will be interesting to find out how long”: Ibid.
“The still top-secret Gaither Report”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 98.
222 “Arguing the Case for Being Panicky”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 150.
“Another tranquility pill”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 47.
“It was by no means a blood, sweat and toil speech”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 34.
“Two Sputniks cannot sway Eisenhower”: Ibid, pp. 45-46.
sinking by 22 percentage points: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 151.
“In a matter of a few months”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 156.
“The bill’s best bet”: Ibid., p. 161.
“Eisenhower was skeptical about the loans”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 195.
223 A new $ 100-million-a-year Astronautical Research and Development Agency: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 112.
“I’d like to know what’s on the other side of the moon”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 453.
“a depression that will curl your hair”: Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency, p. 121.
Unemployment was expected to jump by as much as 1.5 million: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 213.
224 “In effect there was no clear cut authority”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 167.
“They are trying to delude Congress”: Harris, A New Command, p. 183.
“Either give me a clear-cut order”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 134.
“I’m afraid my language”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 168.
“a fierce religious zeal” and a “pious belligerence”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 127.
225 “Vanguard will never make it”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 155.
“all test firings of Vanguard have met with success”: Ibid., p. 166.
stop sending him “garbage”: Kurt Stehling, Project Vanguard (New York: Doubleday, 1961), p. 119.
“almost developed”: Ibid., p. 60.
“For all practical purposes the Vanguard vehicle was new”: Constance McLaughlin Green and Milton Lomask, Vanguard: A History (Washington,