Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [175]
226 “It was either forgotten, or not understood”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 60. simultaneously drew paychecks from the aerospace companies: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 240.
assertions from the Glenn L. Martin Company: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, pp. 54, 62.
Vanguard’s budget: Ibid., pp. 62, 105, 131.
“I question very much whether it would have been authorized”: Percival Brundage, April 30, 1957, Project Vanguard memorandum to the president, Bureau of Budget files, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/iik4.html.
227 “piece by rotten piece”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 119.
227 There were moisture problems, poorly located pressure indicator lines, unsoldered wire connections, corroded and leaky fittings: Ibid., pp. 109-11.
“What! You want to put a ball in that rocket?”: Ibid., pp. 87-88.
“We’re never going to make it”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 131.
228 “an unaccepted, incompletely developed vehicle”: Ibid., p. 177.
“An astonishing piece of stupidity”: Time, October 21, 1957.
the Stewart Committee had been “prejudiced”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 60.
229 “the funds estimated by Secretary Quarles were totally inadequate”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 21.
Wilson interviewed by Mike Wallace: Ibid., p. 47.
“Implicit in all the criticism”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 457.
a crack team of Wall Street lawyers: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 1022.
230 “He never asked the head of my organization”: Eilene Galloway, NASA Oral History transcript, at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/GallowayE/EG_8-7-00.pdf.
“He was really like a dynamo”: Ibid.
“The timing was perfect”: Legislative Origins of the National Aeronautics and Space Act: Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop Conducted April 3, 1992, Monographs in Space History no. 8, http://www.history.nasa.gov/40than/leg islat.pdf.
“Crisis had become normalcy”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 226.
“His aides who sometimes caught him with a faraway look”: Mosley, Dulles, p. 439.
Gallup polls had shown that most American voters did not mind Ike’s frequent weekday golf outings: Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency, p. 40.
231 “Oh little Sputnik, flying high”: Roger D. Launius, Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age, monograph at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html. “As I picked up a pen”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 227.
“You may be President in twenty-four hours”: Nixon, RN, p. 184.
232 “The Vanguard tower was clear against a starry sky”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 206.
“Bird Watch Hill”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 122.
233 filled the airwaves with all manner of facts: Ibid.
Though missiles had been tested at the complex since the summer of 1950: http://www.patrick.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=4514& page=1.
“The rocket looked unkempt”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 21.
234 the most ambitious and expensive installment of his “Man in Space” series: Introduction by Leonard Maltin to Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond, commemorative DVD package, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Burbank, Calif., 2004, originally aired December 4, 1957.
235 Wolfsschanze: This account of the July 1943 meeting is drawn from Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich, p. 192.
and film that had been shot using several cameras simultaneously: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 33.
236 “seemed a pretty dowdy type”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 27.
somewhat more reluctant decision in 1940: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 41.
237 “But what I want is annihilation”: Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich, p. 192.
“The Führer was amazed at von Braun’s youth”: Ibid., p. 278.
238 Porter was instrumental in scuttling: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 240.
239 “Ten, nine, eight . . .”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, pp. 208-9.
“Oh God! No! Look out! Duck!”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 24.
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240 “What