Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [176]
where polls conducted in Britain and France prior to Sputnik’s launch had shown that only 6 percent: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 240.
241 “Why doesn’t somebody go out there, find it, and kill it”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 117.
“Oh, what a Flopnik”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 158.
Kaputnik, Splatnik, Stallnik: Time, December 16, 1957.
“This incident has no bearing on our programs”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 72.
242 Sputnik Cocktails: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 4.
“our worst humiliation since Custer’s last stand”: Time, December 16, 1957.
Already, the Glenn L. Martin Company: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 210.
“This program has had unprecedented publicity”: Time, December 16, 1957.
“It lies with the President”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 117.
“How long, how long oh God”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 173.
95 percent of his speech and motor skills: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 229.
“There were open and widespread suggestions that the President resign”: Time, December 9, 1957.
“It is the whole free world that is sick in bed with Ike”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 59.
243 “In my mind was the question”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, pp. 230-31.
The move would inspire a running joke: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 144.
“This man is not what he was”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 234.
245 The Chief Designer was diagnosed with arrhythmia, coupled with “over-fatigue”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 175.
a region-wide search for Tsander’s grave: Ibid.
246 tales of the mixed-breed terrier Laika: Harford, Korolev, p. 132.
astonishingly detailed descriptions of the devices: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 207.
“Tell me, Sergei Pavlovich”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 82.
247 “to deliver the Soviet Coat of Arms to the Moon”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 179.
“Korolev works for TASS”: Harford, Korolev, p. 116.
“Before you begin your questioning”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 178.
248 “The chief reason”: Philip Nash, The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1951-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), p. 20.
248 “was being authorized to proceed on a ‘top-priority’ basis”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 1025.
“With feelings much different from those”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 190.
249 “Proposal for a National Integrated Missile and Space Vehicle Development Program”: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 262.
“like a yo-yo”: NASA Oral History series, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Ballistic/SchrieverBA/schrieverba.pdf.
“Sputnik woke us up”: Ibid.
“So I also closed the door”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 188.
tried to covertly buy the Itek Corporation: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 229.
In the summer of 1957, Bissell, Edwin Land, and Jim Killian: Ibid., p. 230.
250 “Our first goal was to put the genie back in the bottle”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 135.
“I had to invent an elaborate cover explanation”: Ibid., p. 136.
251 “Some awful needles were stuck into this thing”: 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/legislat.pdf.
“We will be walking a very tight wire with our lives”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 226.
252 “There are too many people in government who have the right to say no”: Harris, A New Command, p. 191.
“At the Pentagon they shudder when they speak of the ‘gap’”: Prados, The Soviet Estimate, p. 80.
“a leaky ship, with a committee on the bridge”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 118.
“Speaking so fast”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 1023.
“Control of space means control of the world”: Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 145.
253 “Light a match behind