Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry

Chertok, Boris

ISBN 10: 1288547811 / ISBN 13: 9781288547814

Published by Bibliogov, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry
• Publisher: Bibliogov
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1288547811
• ISBN 13: 9781288547814
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Chertok not only describes and reflects upon his experiences, but he also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos.

About the Author

 

Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious “Chief Designer” Sergey Korolev. Chertok’s sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People.   This book was edited by Dr. Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, and Gen. Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.