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Zhukov ouster by, 188–95

Khrushchev, Sergei

career of, 100–101, 272

father’s political life and, 41, 111, 192, 194, 195

R-7 and, 18, 20–22, 27–29, 34, 36, 39–40, 42–44, 98

Sputnik and, 195–96, 203, 205

U-2 and, 125, 130–31

Killian, James, 53, 93, 135, 218–19, 223–24, 243, 249–50

Killian report, 53, 117

Kim Il Sung, 88–89

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 137

Kirichenko, Aleksei, 18, 27–38, 195

Knerr, Hugh, 9

Kodak company, 116

Kolyma mines, 66, 100

Korean War, 24, 47, 80, 89–90, 183

Korolev, Sergei, 186, 195, 220, 261, 266

background and early career of, 103–9

death and legacy of, 273–75

dog in space with Sputnik II and, 209–12, 217

honors awarded to, 203–4

illness of, after Sputnik II and doubts about R-7, 245–47

Khruschev okays projects of, 27–29, 33–36, 39–44, 56

known only as Chief Designer, 27

marries Ksenia, 106–8

marries Nina, 99–100

Nobel Prize denied to, 203

orbital velocity problem and, 262

overselling of R-7 and Glushkov cause problems for, 64–72

R-7 delays and, 95–103

R-7 first successful flight and, 113–14, 129

R-7 loading problem and, vs. R-16, 246–47

race of, vs. von Braun, 100, 102

satellites pushed by, 135–36, 142–50, 269

Sputnik successes of, 150–56, 158–60, 188, 196–99, 201–12

Stalin purge and, 33–34, 66, 109, 203–4

Koroleva, Ksenia Vincentini, 100, 106–7, 108, 155

Koroleva, Natalia, 66, 100, 106, 108–9, 203

Koroleva, Nina Kotenkova, 99–100, 102–3, 147

Krock, Arthur, 59, 182

Kuznetsov, Viktor, 102, 142

Laika (dog in space), 215, 246

Land, Edwin, 117–18, 249–50

Land report, 117–18, 132–33

Lang, Fritz, 92

Larson, Arthur, 185

Le Figaro, 199

Legislative Reference Service, 230

LeMay, Curtis, 24–25, 57–59, 81, 89, 101, 125–26, 217

Lemnitzer, Lyman L., 164, 220

Lenin, V. I., 21, 31, 61, 72

Leningrad, siege of, 35

Life, 173, 216, 222

Lionel Corp., 277

Lippmann, Walter, 182

Little Rock school crisis, 139–41, 150, 168–69, 174, 177, 182, 201

Lockheed company, 119

London, 4–6, 36

London Daily Herald, 241

London Sunday Times, 208

Lubell, Samuel, 173–74

Luce, Clare Boothe, 216–17

Luftwaffe, 4, 235

MacArthur, Douglas, 46

Maksimov, Alexander, 98

Malenkov, Georgi, 109, 149

Malinovsky, Rodion, 101, 193–95

Manchester Guardian, 199

Manhattan Project, 166

Mann, Woodrow W., 140

manned space missions

plans for, 185, 211–12, 247–49

USSR achieves first, 268–69

Mao Zedong, 89, 208–9

Marchetti, Victor, 58

Margerison, Tom, 207–8

Markel, Hazel, 181

Mars, 87–88, 234–35

“Mars and Beyond” (TV segment), 234

Marshall Plan, 37, 118

Martin, Glenn L., Co., 226–27, 242, 258

Marx, Karl, 21

“massive retaliation” doctrine, 24

Mazur, Dan, 225, 227

McCarthy, Joseph, 57, 67, 88–89

McDougall, Walter, 186, 222

McElroy, Neil H., 164–68, 219, 244, 247–48, 250, 265, 276

Medaris, Jessie, 163

Medaris, John Bruce, 224

ABMA satellite and Jupiter C programs kept alive by, 129, 134, 161–68, 178, 186–87, 218–20

background of, 45–47, 51, 162–63

Explorer launch and, 248–50, 253–56, 258–59, 261, 263–67

heads ABMA and resists spending cuts, 46–48, 50–52, 54–55, 79–83

later career and death of, 276–77

Meet the Press (TV show), 132, 242

Meisenheimer, John, 264

Mexico, 200

MiG-19 and MiG-21 jets, 124, 130

Mikoyan, Anastas, 207, 209

military-industrial complex, 276

military spending

U.S. 50, 52, 57–59, 79, 170, 174, 219, 223–24, 226–27, 274–76

USSR, 38, 71, 191

Miller, Herbert I., 127–28

Milwaukee Sentinel, 173

missiles and rockets. See also intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM); intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM); and specific agencies, individuals, missiles, and nations

accelerometer calibrators and, 7

accuracy of targeting, 35

aluminum alloys and, 52

apex predictor for, 262, 266

boosters for, 99

combustion chambers of, 13–14, 34, 69

engines of, 34–35, 69–72, 102–3, 150, 158, 225–28, 271

escape velocity and, 146, 158

fuel or propellant for, 12–14, 34, 69–72, 101, 150–51, 154–56, 205, 233–34, 247–48, 254, 260, 263–64

“gap,” 131–32, 221–22, 247–48, 251–53,