Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [177]
“I’m not going to ask you about the precise date”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 214.
“Do not admit to the presence of the vehicle”: Harris, A New Command, p. 184.
“I desire it well understood”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 127.
“Personal observation had convinced me”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 193.
254 It consisted of four stages: http://www.history.msfc.nasa.gov/milestones/chpt4.pdf.
extending the Redstone’s burning time from 121 to 155 seconds: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/index.html.
“Ship it to Florida, it will do the job”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 275.
255 “It became quite obvious that every effort”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 196.
“We bootlegged the whole job”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 169.
“thought it would be wise to prepare it in such a way”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, pp. 134-35.
256 “Almost every reference to Army-developed hardware was stricken”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 196.
256 “This is our biggest challenge”: Ibid., p. 188.
257 “just about as thoroughly bored”: Nash, The Other Missiles of October, p. 35.
“The symbols of 1957 were two pale, clear streaks of light”: Time, January 6, 1958.
“make some specific arrangements”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 223.
“I decided to confine the annual message”: Ibid., p. 240.
258 “We could see the Army preparations on their launch pad”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 159.
259 “The night was miserable cold and wet”: Ibid., p. 163.
“Our people did not take kindly to the idea of sitting”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 200.
260 “Above our meeting in the hangar hovered a ghostly”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 175.
261 “an ardent Nazi” who had “denounced his colleagues to the Gestapo”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 12.
polysulfide aluminum and ammonium perchlorate: http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/expinfo.html.
262 apex predictor: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 136.
“Do you really want to rely on this alone?”: Ibid., p. 137.
winds . . . reaching 225 miles per hour: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 263.
263 “What’s happened? What are you going to do?”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 207.
264 “Highly marginal. We do not recommend that you try it”: Ibid., p. 209.
winds . . . still gusted at 157 miles per hour: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 276.
“Everyone was going on sheer nerve”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 210. a twenty-four-year-old first lieutenant by the name of John Meisenheimer: Harris, A New Command, p. 187.
“Every man on the crew was conscious that the hopes of a Nation”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 212.
265 “The searchlights are going on and lighting up the vehicle”: Time, February 10, 1958.
“There is nothing that I have ever encountered”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 212.
“When the countdown reaches zero, the bird will not begin to rise immediately”: Time, February 10, 1958.
266 “Go, baby! Go!”: Harris, A New Command, p. 189.
“No. Let ’em sweat a little”: Time, February 10, 1958.
267 “I’m out of coffee and running low on cigarettes”: Harris, A New Command, p. 189.
“Do you hear her?”. . . Do you hear her now?”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 278.
“Wernher, what’s happened?”: Ibid.
“Goldstone has the bird!”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 224.
Epilogue
269 “It represented only a symbolic counter threat to the United States”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 80.
“It would have been better to dump them in the sea”: Nash, The Other Missiles of October, p. 3.
270 “It is entirely possible that having a failure in the oxygen equipment”: http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/u2incident/departmentstatementon U25560.pdf.
at 8,500 feet by grappling hooks attached to the front of a C-119 military plane: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 321.
271 “Those friggin missiles”: Nash, The Other Missiles of October, p. 3.
a catastrophic explosion: Mikhail E. Kuznetsky, Bajkonur, Korolev, Yangel (Voronezh: Voronezh, 1997), p. 127.
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