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guidance and steering systems of, 3, 5, 13, 30, 70, 82, 95–97, 101–2, 151, 254
heat shield and nose cone of, 34–35, 70, 96, 113–14, 129–30, 144, 147–50, 163, 166, 211, 218, 220, 246, 249
pressurized with nitrogen, 151, 155, 156
range of, 35–36, 40
reentry problem of, 96
“spinning bucket” on, 254, 262, 265
“sweet” point and, 96
transmitters, 151, 159, 255
weight of satellites and, 167–68, 172–73, 185, 214–15
Mittelwerk factory, 11–13, 87, 277
Moldovans, 63
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 18, 27, 30, 32, 38, 41–42, 44, 62–64, 72, 74, 76, 109, 111–12, 149
Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact (1939), 8, 27
Mongolia, 189
moon flight, 185, 215, 247, 249, 273–75, 277
Moscow Higher Technical School, 107
Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, 22
Mosley, Leonard, 230
Mozzhorin, Yuri, 144
Mrykin, Aleksander, 143
Murrow, Edward R., 4–7
Mzhavanadze, Vasil, 61
N-1 lunar rocket, 273
NAACP, 139
Nagy, Imre, 75–76
Napoleon, 22, 190
Nashville Tennessean, 177
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 76
National Academy of Sciences, U.S., 92
National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), 223
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 223, 248–49, 274, 277
National Defense Education Act (1958), 274
National Guard, U.S., 50–93
National Intelligence Estimate (September 15, 1954), 23
National Science Foundation, 227
National Security Agency (NSA), 59, 129
National Security Council (NSC), 53, 78, 117, 132, 180, 184, 221, 240, 244, 254
document NSC 162/2, 50
National Space Establishment (NSE), proposed, 223
Naval Political Department, USSR, 111
Naval Research Center, U.S., 134
Naval Research Laboratory, U.S., 179
Navy, U.S., 47, 79, 166
Vanguard and, 133–34, 162–63, 225–28
Nazi Germany, 1–15, 26, 30, 39, 83–88, 166, 234–38, 258, 261, 277
USSR invaded by, 189–90
NBC, 132, 171, 181, 242
Nedelin, Mitrofan, 102–3, 147, 153–55, 205, 246–47, 271
Nesmeyanov, A. N., 136
Neufeld, Michael, 237–38
New Look Defense Policy, 50–51
Newsweek, 173
New York Herald Tribune, 173, 213, 216
New York Post, 222
New York Times, 59, 94, 136, 171–72, 174, 182, 199, 204, 214–16, 219, 232, 250
Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 104
Nickerson, John C., 82–83, 134, 161
NII-1 (Soviet research institute), 8
NII-88 (Soviet rocket research facility), 22–23, 26–30, 39–44, 98
NII-885 design bureau, 102
Ninth Directorate (KGB), 29
Nixon, Richard, 53–56, 78, 131, 137, 169, 178, 180, 184–86, 215, 221, 231–32, 240, 243–45, 248, 257, 275
NKVD (later KGB), 67, 109
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 72, 185, 241–43, 256–57, 270
North Korea, 88, 89
Norway, 41, 129
Nosov, Aleksandr, 156–58
Novak, Robert, 183
nuclear weapons, 24–26, 35, 38–40, 50, 128, 184, 214–15, 217–18, 220. See also specific types
Oberth, Hermann, 92
Object OD-1, 143, 145
October Revolution, 105–6
jubilee of 1957, 207, 209, 216
Office for Guided Missiles, U.S., 51
Office of Defense Mobilization, U.S., 49, 53, 93
OKB-1, 29–30, 39, 64, 68, 95, 98–100, 150–51, 198, 212, 273
renamed Russian Space Corporation Energya, 278
OKB-52, 100–101
101st Airborne Division, U.S., 140
104th “Timberwolf” Infantry Division, U.S., 10
144th Motor Vehicle Assembly Company, U.S., 11
“open skies” policy, 93
Operation Confidence, 217, 222
Operation Home Run, 25, 126
Operation Powerhouse, 25
Operation Soft Touch, 123
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 88
orbital decay, 93, 197
orbital velocity, 262, 267
Ordnance Technical Intelligence, 10
Orlov, Alexander, 130
P-30 radar, 125
Pakistan, 115–16, 121, 123–24, 129
Paris Match, 277
Pasternak, Boris, 62
Patton, George S., 45–46, 48
Pearson, Drew, 82, 228
Peenemünde, 10, 84–85, 87, 261
Pershing missile, 248
Peter the Great, czar of Russia, 206
Pickering, William H., 255, 267
Pilyugin, Nikolai, 102, 142, 202
Piszkiewicz, Dennis, 83–84
Pittsburgh Press, 213
Pogo effect, 99
Poland, 32, 41, 42, 63, 72–74
Polaroid Co, 117
Polytechnical Institute of Kiev, 107
Popular Mechanics, 100
Porter, Richard, 226, 238
Portland Press Herald, 180
Portugal, 36
Pospelov, Pyotr, 76
Power, Thomas S, 81
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