The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeA widely acclaimed history of the space age. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"—which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States. |
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... Korolev's goal in life was not rocketry per se but spaceflight . The Ministry of Defense published his Rocket Flight into the Stratosphere in 1934 , and Tukhachevsky bestowed upon him the deputy - directorship of the RNII . Glushko was ...
... Korolev at the Tyuratam rocket oasis . His old camp warden , V. N. Chalomei , reportedly stole the credit for Korolev's wartime inven- tions and tried to get him back after 1946. Tyuratam became a divided fiefdom with Glushko , Korolev ...
... Korolev and Yangel , now his deputy , were indoors and survived . Marshal Nedelin , who gave his name to the ... Korolev's nerves and conscience , and on his relationship with Khrushchev were probably more damaging and irre- versible ...
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall No preview available - 2008 |