Moscow / Washington / Omsk / New York / Washington / DC / /
Company
Naval Research Laboratory / New York Times / /
Country
Germany / Russia / United States / Soviet Union / Ukraine / /
Event
Judicial Event / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Butyrskaya Prison / Siberian port of Magadan / GULag Archipelago / Naval Research Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
space travel / wrecked farm machinery / rocket-assisted airplane takeoff systems / artificial earth satellite / radio equipment / /
MusicGroup
The Stalin / /
NaturalFeature
Volga River / Korolev falls / Pacific coast / /
Organization
Red Army / British Interplanetary Society / National Space Club in Washington / Political Publishing House / Soviet army / Soviet Academy of Sciences / Communist party / /
Person
Chelomey / Walter Sullivan / Robert Goddard / Yaroslav Golovanov / Nina Kotenkova / Mikhail N. Tukhachevskiy / Friedrich Zander / Stalin / Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy / Nikolay Rynin / Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Valentin Glushko / Korolcv / Tupolev / Sergey Pavlovich Korolev / Oxana / Bobynin / Robert Conquest / Sergey Korolev / Leonid Vladimirov / /
Position
guard / site commander / Soviet Armaments Minister / aircraft designer / engineer / opportunistic and ambitious engineer / official / engineer / pilot / novelist / Soviet science writer / aviation scientist / Soviet military officer / miner / Minister / deputy for flight testing / science correspondent / Tsar / scientist / future chief designer / officer / heavy guard / great airplane designer / chief designer / rocket magician / professsional engineer / /
This chapter from my 1981 book “Red Star in Orbit ”was an outgrowth of my research paper, “Korolev, Khrushchev, and Sputnik”, published in 1977 in the British Interplanetary Society’s monthly magazine ‘Spacef