Korolev

How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat the Americans to the Moon

James Harford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

1997
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-14853-1 (ISBN)

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Providing a history of the Soviet space programme from the 1930s to the 1970s, this work focuses on Sergei Korolev, the man who built the programme, started the "space race", and dominated the programme until his death in 1966. The evolution of the Soviet space program, which brought the Space Age into being, is one of the most important developments of the 20th century. This book shows how a huge military-industry-university complex comprised of gifted, dedicated engineers and scientists met the gigantic challenge of pioneering the space age under a repressive, secretive regime with limited technology. Although virtually unknown both in his own country and in the West, Korolev is considered by those knowledgeable about the subject to be as, if not more, important than Werhner von Braun. This is the personal story behind the Soviet space programme: Korolev emerged from imprisonment as a spy in a Siberian gulag to full freedom to lead the space programmes he dominated until his sudden death, which is still shrouded in mystery.

JAMES HARFORD is the Executive Director Emeritus of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was the Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum. Mr. Harford lives in Princeton, N.J.

Kibalchich to Korolev; Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders; To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets; The Gulag and Sharaga Years; The German V-2: Bedrock Technology; The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA; Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First; Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus; Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second; Voskhod: A Circus Act; Spy Sats and Com Sats; The Organization: Korolev Up and Down; The Technology: Simple but Reliable; The Party, the Paranoia; Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous; The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall; After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions; Ironic Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.4.1997
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 242 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-471-14853-9 / 0471148539
ISBN-13	978-0-471-14853-1 / 9780471148531
Zustand	Neuware