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Tables of Contents for Korolev
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
7
A Note About Russian Names
xvi
1
Abbreviations
xvii
Prologue The Anonymous Chief Designer
1
7
Chapter 1 Kibalchich to Korolev
8
8
Chapter 2 Growing Up in Ukraine: Broken Family, Bolsheviks, Gliders
16
13
Chapter 3 To Moscow: Tupolev, Tukhachevsky, First Rockets
29
20
Chapter 4 The Gulag and Sharaga Years
49
15
Chapter 5 The German V-2: Bedrock Technology
64
27
Chapter 6 The World's First ICBM: Aimed at the USA
91
30
Chapter 7 Sputnik: No Big Deal to Khrushchev-At First
121
18
Chapter 8 Unmanned Firsts: Hitting the Moon and Venus
139
20
Chapter 9 Gagarin First, Shepard an Anti-climactic Second
159
21
Chapter 10 Voskhod: A "Circus Act"
180
10
Chapter 11 Spy Sats and Com Sats
190
11
Chapter 12 The Organization: Korolev Up and Down
201
18
Chapter 13 The Technology: Simple but Reliable
219
11
Chapter 14 The Party, the Paranoia
230
16
Chapter 15 Racing Apollo: The Odds Were Enormous
246
30
Chapter 16 The End of Anonymity: Burial in the Kremlin Wall
276
10
Chapter 17 After Korolev: Demise of the Circumlunar and Lunar Landing Missions
286
27
Chapter 18 Ironic Epilogue
313
11
Appendix A Chronology of the Moon Race, 1957-1974
324
16
Notes
340
32
Bibliography
372
5
Index
377