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airmail, 18–27, 90
Alcock, John and Arthur Brown, 27–8, 31
aliens, 427–8
America First, 94, 96
anti-semitism
see Ford, Henry; Kennedy, Joseph; Lindbergh, Charles
Apollo project, 180, 189, 190, 233, 266–77, 332–3, 357, 416–17
Apollo 1 disaster/‘The Fire’, 266–9, 271, 272, 277, 306
see also astronauts: Chaffee, Grissom, White
Apollo 8, 279–97, 282, 298–303, 305, 307, 316, 323, 424
Genesis quoted, 293–4, 299–300, 303, 316, 328–9, 335, 405–6
see also astronauts: Anders, Borman, Lovell; stamps
Apollo 11, 305–29
Command Module/Columbia, 307, 308–9, 310, 319, 321, 322
‘Giant Step’ tour, 327
Lunar Module/The Eagle, 308–9, 309–10, 313–15, 318–19, 321, 322
see also astronauts: Aldrin, Armstrong, Collins
Apollo 13, 332–4
emergency, 333–4
Howard, Ron Apollo 13, 334
Lunar Module, 333–4
see also astronauts: Haise, Lovell, Swigert
cancelled, 350
Command Modules, 266–71, 281–2, 286, 287, 296, 304, 305, 330, 341, 342–3
configuration at launch, 281, 281–2
cost, 241
first launch, 230
Lunar Landing Training Vehicle/ Flying Bedstead, 313, 314
Lunar Modules, 270, 271, 275–6, 281, 304, 305, 330, 347–8
Lunar Roving Vehicle/Moon Buggy, 340, 346
moonwalks/rides, 237, 318–21, 323–4, 341, 345
orbits, 289–93, 295, 305
Service Modules, 267, 281, 287, 290, 296, 308
simulator, 308–9, 331
see also rockets: manned moon shots
army pilots, 90–1
astronauts, 24, 32, 169, 170, 171, 199, 233–4, 234, 235, 247, 357, 363
Aldrin, Edwin ‘Buzz’, 76, 234, 235, 253, 260, 280, 305–29,306, 406
his father, Edwin Sr, 311, 318, 327
his wife, Joan, 317, 318, 327
quoted, 327
on the moon, 320–1
Anders, Bill, 234, 235, 279, 279–97, 280, 302
quoted, 300, 302
Armstrong, Neil, 76, 233, 234, 247, 248, 251, 280, 305–29, 306
his son, Mark, 268, 320
his wife, Janet, 328
on the moon, 247, 315, 317, 318–21
as pilot, 247–9, 251
quoted, 247, 268
Bassett, Charlie, 234, 235, 251–2, 260
Bean, Al, 234, 235,329, 329–32, 330, 345
quoted, 313, 331, 332, 400
bitchiness, 251–2, 260, 309
Borman, Frank, 233, 234, 243, 244, 246, 269, 279, 279–97, 280, 299–300
his wife, Susan, 284, 288, 293, 295
quoted, 295
quoted, 300, 301, 420
Carpenter, Scott, 174, 174–5, 192, 199, 200, 202
Cernan, Gene, 252, 253–5, 254, 260, 270, 271, 305, 305, 347–50, 348
his wife, Jan: quoted, 339
quoted, 237, 252–3, 253, 254, 346, 347, 348, 349, 349–50
Chaffee, Roger, 234, 235, 267–8
Collins, Mike, 234, 235, 256, 256–9, 268, 285, 287, 297, 305–29, 306
and expertise, 238–9, 246, 266–7, 336
his wife, Pat, 258
on Saturn V, 273
searching for the words, 258, 299, 347, 365, 373
on space pictures, 257, 319
von Braun eulogy, 399–400
see also ‘earthly ennui’
Conrad, Pete, 233, 234, 242, 242, 259, 286, 329, 329–32, 330, 370
quoted, 332
Cooper, Gordon ‘Gordo’, 174, 174–5, 193, 202–3, 242, 242, 245
Cunningham, Walt, 234, 235, 276, 276–7
Duke, Charlie, 345–6, 346
his wife, Dotty: quoted, 346
‘earthly ennui’/epiphanies/spiritual journeys, 324–9, 331–2, 333, 338, 344–5, 370–3, 428–9
Eisele, Donn, 234, 235, 276, 276–7
Evans, Ron, 347–8, 348, 350
Freeman, Theodore, 234, 235, 252
Glenn, John, 174,192, 194–5, 199, 201, 334
his wife, Annie, 194, 196
quoted, 198–9, 203
see also astronauts: Shepard, Alan
Gordon, Dick, 234, 235, 259, 259, 286, 329, 329–31, 330
Grissom, Virgil ‘Gus’, 174, 174–5, 191, 237–39, 238, 267–8, 277
his wife, Betty, 268
quoted, 238, 267–8
Haise, Fred, 280, 282, 332–4, 333
quoted, 334
Irwin, Jim, 339–45, 340
quoted, 340, 342
Lovell, Jim, 233, 234, 243–6, 244, 253, 260, 279, 279–97, 280, 332–4, 333, 347, 397
and Charles Lindbergh, 307
his wife, Marilyn, 295
quoted, 334, 429
Mattingley, Ken, 345–6, 346
McDivitt, Jim, 233, 234, 239–40, 241, 304, 304
Mitchell, Edgar ‘Ed’, 335, 335–9, 346, 371–4, 422
quoted, 338, 372, 373–4, 400, 422, 426, 429
perks, 196
Roosa Stu, 335, 335–9
Schirra, Wally, 174, 174–5, 193, 202, 243–4, 246, 276, 276–7
his wife, Josephine: quoted, 238
quoted, 276
Schmitt, Jack, 347–50, 348, 350, 361
quoted, 349, 349–50, 366
Schweickart, Rusty, 234, 235, 304, 304, 369–71, 372, 429
his wife, Clare, 370
quoted, 370, 371, 374, 406
Scott, Dave, 234, 235, 247, 248, 251, 304,304, 339–45, 340, 370, 371
See, Elliot, 233, 234, 251–2, 260
his wife, Marilyn, 252
Shepard, Alan, 76, 174, 182, 184, 184, 199, 246, 252,335, 335–37
quoted, 175, 183, 184, 338
rivalry with John Glenn, 174–5, 181–2, 195–6, 198
Slayton, Deke, 174, 174–5, 270, 279, 313, 314, 347–8
grounded, 196–7
harsh judgments, 252, 277, 370
and religious/mystical issues, 253, 303, 316, 336
and Richard Underwood, 240–1
Stafford, Tom, 233, 234, 243, 244, 252, 253, 254, 255, 305, 305
Swigert, Jack, 332–4, 333
White, Ed, 234, 234, 239, 240, 241, 241, 267–8
his wife, Pat, 268
quoted, 268
Williams, Clifton, 234, 235, 252
women, 194
Worden, Al, 339–45, 340
quoted, 340, 341, 342–3, 344, 416–I7
Young, John, 233–4, 234, 237, 238, 256, 256–7, 305, 305, 309, 345–7, 346
quoted, 257, 347
see also Mercury project: Mercury Seven
atom bomb/nuclear device, 132, 140, 141, 150, 153, 159, 160, 161, 186, 397
Hiroshima, 394
nuclear deterrence, 150–1
nuclear war simulation, 160
simulated missions, 375
tests, 201, 371–2, 375
see also cold war: heats up; Manhattan Project
balloons/ballooning, 29, 49, 57, 76–7, 168
‘beatnik’, 200
Berg, Scott: quoted, 14
Berry, Charles ‘Chuck’, 306, 343
quoted, 331
Bixby, Harold M., 29–30
Bleriot, Louis, 49
Boeing, 263–4
Bradbury, Ray: quoted, 420
Brand, Stewart, 362–5
CoEvolution Quarterly, 365, 368
quoted, 363, 364, 367, 371
Whole Earth Catalog, 364–5
quoted, 364
Brezhnev, Leonid, 236, 244–5, 260–1
Brzezinski, Matthew: quoted, 157, 161, 163–4, 164–5
Byrd, Commander Richard E., 34, 38, 40
Cape Canaveral/Cape Kennedy, 152–3, 165, 167, 201, 267, 306
Carrel, Alexis, 98–101, 102
quoted, 101
Chaikin, Andrew A Man on the Moon, 336
quoted, 294–5, 345, 421
Chamberlin, Clarence, 34–5, 38
Christ, Jesus, 134–5, 395, 398
Churchill, Winston, 109, 132, 151
quoted, 103
Clarke, Arthur C., 172, 308
quoted, 421
climate change, 398
cold war, 160, 166, 203–4, 302
heats up, 229
Collier’s magazine, 146, 147–8, 153, 339, 340
Coolidge, Calvin, 22, 51
cosmism, 133–4, 198, 366, 422
cosmonauts, 170, 181, 182, 236, 247, 351
Bykovsky, Valery, 194
deaths beyond Earth’s atmosphere, 351
Gagarin, Yuri, 182–3, 183, 184, 187, 197, 198, 203, 213, 271, 351
death, 272
quoted, 182, 198
tours the world, 183
Komarov, Vladimir, 271–2
his wife, Valentina, 271
Leonov, Alexey, 237
Nikolayev, Andriyan, 193, 198
Popovich, Pavel, 193
Tereshkova, Valentina, 194, 347
Titov, Gherman, 191, 197, 199, 239, 300
quoted, 203
Cronkite, Walter, 172, 200, 323
Cummings, E. E., 94–5
quoted, 371
Cuxhaven, 132, 139, 140
Dawkins, Richard, 368–9, 427
defecation
see space evacuation
Degenkolb, Gerhard, 107, 109
diarrhea
see space evacuation
Disney, Walt, 94–5
see also von Braun, Wernher: collaborations with Disney
Dornberger, Walter, 77, 78, 82, 83, 106–13, 127, 129–30
quoted, 108
Dubos, René: quoted, 367
DuPont chemical company, 56, 66
Durant, Frank C., 151
‘Earthgazing’, 24, 255, 285, 327, 355–7
Earthrise, 291–2, 305, 323, 341, 420
see also space photography: Earthrise shot
ecology movement/ environmentalism, 366–7, 396–7, 410
Eiseley, Loren, 366–7
quoted, 366
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 150, 152, 153, 159, 204, 217, 230, 398–9
army career, 132, 169, 210
backing in space race, 165, 168
misgivings about/indifference to space program, 151, 154, 158, 159, 169, 170–1, 183, 187, 190
quoted, 185–6, 204
spending on defense, 160, 161
tainted by space setbacks, 166
U-2 crisis, 185, 188
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 407–8
Fiske, Edward, 299, 301, 302
Flynt, Larry, 408–9
Fonck, René, 28, 29, 33
Ford, Henry/his company, 102–3, 116–17, 126
Model T, 388
Fuller, Buckminster, 363–5
‘spaceship earth’, 363
futurism, 133–4
Fyodorov, Nikolai, 133, 134
Galione, John, 120–2, 124–5
Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL), 136
see also Reactive Scientific Research Institute
Gemini project, 233, 236, 237–62, 266–7, 273, 282, 286, 307, 308
geology 335–6, 340–2, 345, 347–8, 350, 351
Genesis rock, 341–2, 345
Gilruth, Bob, 171, 181, 240, 250, 313
quoted, 250
Glennan, T. Keith, 171, 187, 230
Glushko, Valentin, 136, 138–41, 13g, 161, 162, 164
sent to the Gulag, 137
Godard, Jean-Luc: Alphaville, 403
Goddard, Esther, 65, 68, 176, 177, 322, 324
Goddard, Robert, 62, 66, 68–74, 147, 311
anticipates space travel, 57–8, 59, 60–4, 73, 151–2, 297, 322, 324, 423, 424
boyhood/adolescence, 57–8
character, 65
contacted by Lindbergh, 56, 65, 68, 93
death, 130
funding, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65–6, 67, 79
his parents, 57
of interest to the Germans, 83, 130–1
launches rockets, 66–7, 68, 131, 372
overtaken, 72
quoted, 58, 61, 64, 73
relocates to New Mexico, 66
see also Roswell
reputation, 64, 135–6, 175–7
secretiveness, 70–1, 176
Göring, Hermann, 87–8, 92, 398–9
Gruppa Izucheniya Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya (GIRD), 136, 137
see also Reactive Scientific Research Institute
Guggenheim, Carol, 56, 64
Guggenheim, Harry, 40, 53, 56, 65–6, 67, 69, 70, 130, 131, 175, 177
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), 69–70
Hamilton, Margaret, 195
Hasselblad, Victor, 202, 362
his cameras, 202, 255, 257, 323
Hawking, Stephen: quoted, 420
Hearst, William Randolph, 42, 52, 86
Herrick, Myron T., 50, 53
Himmler, Heinrich, 106–7, 108, 109, 113
quoted, 111–12
Hitler, Adolf, 88–9, 105–9, 112–13, 115’ 126, 128, 355, 377, 398–9
and America/Americans, 87, 100, 102, 104
Berchtesgaden, 119
death, 127
Lindbergh on, 92
at Peenemünde, 82
rise of, 78–9, 80
Wolf’s Lair, 105, 108
Holliday, Clyde T., 142, 143
Hotz, Robert: quoted, 327–8
Hovhaness, Alan: quoted, 369–70
Hoyle, Fred, 58–9
Hugh, Fitzroy, 50, 52
Huntsville, Alabama (under
changing titles), 155, 158, 166, 169, 172, 178, 201, 340, 403–4
led by John Medaris, 155, 187
memorial service for von Braun, 399
von Braun sets up, 144, 145, 154
International Geophysical Year (IGY),153, 157
jet engines/planes, 70, 106, 131, 136, 145, 174
jet trainers, 251–2
Johnson, Katherine, 194–5, 334
Johnson, Lyndon B., 187, 188–9, 196, 262, 307, 324
quoted, 159, 194, 307
Kammler, Hans, 111, 113, 125–6, 127, 129–30
Karth, Joseph: quoted, 264
Kennedy, Jackie (Onassis), 324
quoted, 235
Kennedy, John F., 205–6, 217, 276, 398–9
assassinated, 235
commits to Apollo project, 188–90, 195, 231, 232, 248, 319, 329
Cuba crises
Bay of Pigs invasion, 187–8
Missile Crisis, 229
initial indifference to space race,187, 234–5
quoted, 189, 205, 231, 233, 235, 430
takes office, 185–6, 187
Kennedy, Joseph, 92–3, 103
Khrushchev, Nikita, 161–2, 163, 168, 183, 185, 188, 203–4, 229, 236
quoted, 261
King, Martin Luther, 275, 404
quoted, 301
Korean War, 145, 311
Korolev, Ksenia, 137, 138, 140
quoted, 262
Korolev, Sergei, 137–41, 139, 181, 231, 277, 278
building rockets, 161–2, 168, 186, 350–1
death and reputation, 261–2
and Gagarin, 182
and orbit, 173–4
quoted, 262
sent to the Gulag, 137–8, 261
and Sputniks, 162–5, 167
Kraft, Chris, 250, 273, 276–7
quoted, 200, 295, 319
Krantz, Eugene, 293, 294, 314
quoted, 293
Kubrick, Stanley,
2001: A Space Odyssey, 147, 286, 371
Dr Strangelove, 160, 403
Laika, 164
Lambert, Albert Bond/his field, 29, 37
Land, Charles Henry, 13, 14
Lasswitz, Kurd Auf zwei Planeten, 75, 77
Life magazine, 165, 183, 195, 196, 200, 213, 223, 320, 348, 362
Lindbergh, Anne (née Morrow), 55, 283, 302, 375, 379, 381 382–7
and America First, 96
on diplomacy, 158
Gift from the Sea, 389
on Goddard, 64–5, 68
Listen! The Wind, 96, 382
marriage (progress of), 54–5, 84–6, 91, 96, 378, 379, 381–6, 389–2
on Nazis, 92
as a pilot, 55, 387
The Wave of the Future, 96–7, 384
as writer, 86, 96–7, 382–3
Lindbergh, Ansy, 378, 386
quoted, 385–6
Lindbergh, August (Ola Månsson), 11–12, 12
Lindbergh, Charles, 75, 89, 311, 315, 374, 375, 381, 425
aerobatics, 16–17, 18
as an executive, 55, 170
anticipates space travel, 56, 59, 69
anti-semitic views, 87, 95–7, 387
and astronauts, 297, 306, 307, 308, 312, 312–13, 323, 334, 378–9, 424
automobile driver, 14–15, 239, 388
birth/boyhood, 13–14, 15, 239
bombing raids, 118
brushes with death, 20–2
character, 15, 16, 19, 23–5, 43–5, 47, 50, 54–5, 386–9
courting danger, 16–17, 18–22, 25, 27, 37, 41, 43, 44, 47, 84, 117
decline and death, 389–93
diplomacy, 49–50
emigrates, 86
environmentalism, 377–81, 398
farming, 15–16
on Hitler, 92
as husband and father, 84–5, 381–2, 384–9
injuries, 65
isolationist, 88, 91–2, 93–8, 103
learns flying, 16, 17
lend lease, 94
listomania, 32–3, 386, 388–9
mail pilot, 18–27, 90–1
marksman, 14, 15
meeting Göring, 88, 92
meets/supports Robert Goddard, 65–6, 69, 98, 130, 131, 175–6, 177
mysticism/religion, 23–4, 99–100, 376–7, 379, 380-1, 390–1, 423–4
New York to Paris flight, 27–48, 36, 190, 387, 390, 421–2
American reception, 51–2
French reception, 49–50
his speech, 49–50
philosophy/overview, 375–9
psychology/hauntings, 39–40, 45–6, 53, 386, 389, 422–3
reading of international politics, 88, 91–2, 93, 97, 101, 150
secret families, 381–2, 385, 392–3
The Spirit of St Louis (the book), 384–5
The Spirit of St Louis (the plane), 29–48,35,36, 50–1,51 52, 274, 312–13, 313, 388, 421–2
construction, 31–2, 34, 35, 51
equipment, 32–3
on a stamp, 51, 51
training fighter pilots, 117–18
We (memoir), 53, 197
Lindbergh, Charles Jr, 85, 387
kidnapped/murdered, 84–5, 382, 384, 389
Lindbergh, Charles Sr, 12–14, 15, 15, 17, 18, 28, 37
Lindbergh, Eva, 13, 14
Lindbergh, Evangeline Lodge Land, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 18, 28–9, 41–2, 53
quoted, 28, 42
Lindbergh, Jon, 85–6, 382
Lindbergh, Land, 384, 390
Lindbergh, Reeve, 25, 97, 384, 386, 391, 393
quoted, 25, 97–8, 386, 387, 392
Lindbergh, Scott: quoted, 392
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Builders: quoted, 32
Lovelock, James, 367, 369
Gaia hypothesis, 368
quoted, 368
Low, George, 269, 271, 275, 280, 396
quoted, 396
Luftwaffe, 79, 80, 87, 106
doodlebug, 106
Lunar Orbiter program, 263–5, 318–19, 364
Lutheran Church, 11, 149, 395, 398, 404
MacCormack, John, 412, 413, 414
MacDonald, Charles, 117
MacLeish, Archibald, 300–1
quoted, 301
Magee, John, 258, 258, 345
quoted, 258–9
Manhattan Project, 147, 150
Mansur, Charles, 67, 68–9
Mariner program, 263
Mars, is there life on?, 367
see also rockets: to Mars; van Braun
McNamara, Robert, 229–30
Medaris, John B., 155, 156, 157, 165, 166, 167
quoted, 156, 157, 167
Mercury project, 170–1, 174, 178, 180, 181, 247–8, 250, 253, 260, 282, 307, 334
capsule, 184, 184,191, 199, 233
manned flights, 184, 191, 192, 193, 195, 199, 200, 202, 206
Mercury Seven, 174, 174–5, 181–2, 195, 196, 197, 233, 234, 238, 249, 339
We Seven (collective memoir), 197
post-Mercury, 229, 233, 242, 267
test flights, 180–1
Minnesota, 12, 14
Mittelwerk, 109–11, 119–24, 123, 130, 131, 140, 401
camp crimes trial, 144
Dora camp, 110, 111, 119–20, 122, 124, 402
Lindbergh visits, 119, 124–5
Nordhausen camp, 110, 119–20, 122–6, 123, 138–9
moon trees, 338–9
Morrow, Dwight, 53–4
Morrow, Elizabeth (Lindbergh’s mother-in-law), 54–5, 92
quoted, 387
‘mother Earth’, 20, 301, 420
Mueller, George, 230, 231, 269, 270
Murray, Garth, 212–13, 214, 220, 408, 409–10, 411, 412
disappearance and fate, 412–14
Murray, Robin, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412–13
Murray III, William ‘Bill’, 211–23, 221, 408, 414
quoted, 212, 213, 215, 216, 222
Murray O’Hair, Madalyn, 206, 209–226, 219, 221, 363, 405–15, 406, 411
birth/youth, 209–10
campaign against religion, 14–15, 210–26, 299–300, 303, 316, 322, 342, 405–9
defection (attempted), 213
disappearance and fate, 412–14
flight from police, 221–5
lawsuits, 215–21, 302, 328, 342, 406–7
Supreme Court rulings, 219–20, 406–7
quoted, 213, 214, 217, 221, 222, 407, 408, 409, 410
Neufeld, Michael Von Braun: Dreamer of Space: quoted, 80, 149, 250, 395, 402
New York Times, 100, 154, 164, 324
on Apollo, 299, 300–1, 325
on Goddard, 60–1, 324
on Lindbergh, 50, 52, 53, 91, 116
on Murray O’Hair, 220
on von Braun, 159
Nicolson, Harold, 87, 91
Nixon, Richard, 185, 321–2, 323, 396, 398–9, 405, 407
public enthusiasm, private ambivalence to the space program, 306, 307, 324, 350, 396
quoted, 324, 416
Noordung, Hermann, 147
North American (engineering firm), 266–70
Nungesser, Charles and François Coli, 34, 35–6, 38, 39, 49
Oberammergau, 126, 127
Oberth, Hermann, 75, 76, 136, 147, 151–2, 176, 308
Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen, 72–4, 75
quoted, 261, 308
O’Hair, Madalyn
see Murray O’Hair
O’Hara, Dee, 308
quoted, 344
Orbiter project (aka Project Slug), 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 159, 165, 166, 178
see also satellites: Explorer
Orteig, Raymond/his prize, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39
Our World (BBC satellite hook-up), 272–3
Paine, Thomas, 328, 332, 395–6, 407
Pan American Airways, 84, 85–6, 96, 116
Paul VI, Pope, 322
quoted, 301–2
Pearl Harbor, 103–4, 210
as metaphor, 158
Peenemünde (Army Research Centre), 107, 110, 145, 146, 152, 253, 402, 404
air attack, 109, 111
dispersal of the staff, 130, 139, 144, 172
evacuation, 125–6
Himmler’s visits, 106–8
Hitler’s visit, 82
Werk Ost (army), 79–80, 82–3
rocket launches, 81, 83, 108
Werk West (Luftwaffe), 79–80
perfusion pump, 98–9
Petrone, Rocco: quoted, 270, 273
Phil Donahue Show, 226, 409
Donahue quoted, 415
Picard, Auguste, 76, 77, 81
Poole, Robert Earthrise, 249
quoted, 317, 369
Pravda, 163, 183, 262
press,
cooling towards Lindbergh, 116
enthusiasm for Lindbergh, 50, 52
interest in Goddard, 60–1, 63–4, 64–5, 70
interest in von Braun, 171
international, 34, 35, 51, 164, 325
Lindbergh’s hatred of, 41–2, 64–5, 86, 391, 392
pictures from space, 273, 299
preoccupations/misreporting, 54, 99, 175, 318, 324
scorn at the US space program, 158, 166, 183
sensational stories, 84–5, 269, 398
proto-Earths, 426
Proust, Marcel: quoted, 25, 26
Psalms, 323, 342, 345, 390, 399
Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII), 137
The Realist magazine, 217, 218, 225, 363
recovery vehicles, 179
Rhineland, occupation of, 88–9
rockets/spaceships/capsules, 66–7, 68, 74, 106, 135, 148, 168, 177, 399–400
Agena, 243, 251, 253, 256, 259, 260
Atlas, 170–1, 180, 181, 184, 186, 243, 251, 253, 284
dreams of, 56–60, 75, 79, 108, 135, 136, 189, 213, 346, 421, 424
gravity defied, 163, 173, 174, 189, 307
Jupiter/Juno, 153, 154–5, 165, 167, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180, 186, 188
a launch and flight in detail, 279–97, 305–29
liquid-fuelled, 58–77, 62, 66, 82, 128, 137, 176
alcohol/liquid oxygen, 78, 113
gasoline/liquid oxygen, 56
kerosene/liquid oxygen, 283
liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen, 61–3, 73, 281
with living creatures, 143, 164, 177–8, 180–1, 181,191, 277–8, 351
Luna, 173, 179, 262, 351
manned moon shots, 59, 188–9, 230–2, 244, 246–8, 256, 260, 262–3, 307
cost, 190
envisaged, 180
far side of the moon, 289–90, 291–2, 295, 321, 334, 348
fly-by, 277
moonwalks post-Apollo 11, 248, 330–1, 337, 341–2, 349–50
see also Apollo
manned space flight, 76, 81, 168, 170, 180–1, 182–4
see also Gemini; Mercury; Vokshod
to Mars, 57–8, 64, 79, 136, 141, 147 231–2, 339, 395–6
reached, 262
to the moon
crash-landing, 179, 232
missed, 173–4, 232
orbited, 262, 263
past the moon, 277–8
public/press scepticism concerning, 146, 164
soft-landing sought, 188, 232–3, 262
speculation, 60–1, 63–4, 77, 108–9, 129, 135–6, 141, 144
see also Apollo
multistage, 59, 135, 145, 151–2
N1, 261, 278, 350–1
to outer space, 72, 82, 106, 112, 125, 128, 135, 173
projected commerciality, 72–3
Proton, 256, 277, 351
Redstones, 145, 152–3, 154–5, 157, 165, 180, 180, 181, 184, 201
re-entry, 143, 182–3, 191, 276, 277, 296, 329–30, 351
rocket clubs, 72
R-2/R-3, 140–1
R-5/R-7, 161–2, 186
R-12/R-14/R-16, 186, 188
R-11/SCUD missile, 262
Saturn, 170–1, 180, 230–1, 235, 250, 261, 267, 272–5, 281–4, 351, 399–400
see also von Braun: ‘his masterpiece’
solid-fuelled, 59–60, 152
Surveyor (lunar lander), 263, 318–19
Thor/Thor-Able, 154, 178, 179, 186
Titan, 211, 232, 250, 251, 253, 284
in the UK, 186
V-1, 106, 110, 113, 131
V-2 (aka A-4/R-1), 82, 105–14, 115, 124–7, 130–2, 138, 139–45, 152, 161, 175–7, 372, 401
attacks on London, 114–15
Venera, 262
Viking, 152, 153
with warheads, 78, 83, 93, 106, 113
ballistic missiles, 108, 113, 152, 153, 154, 160, 161, 186
cruise missiles, 113, 145
guided missiles, 113, 114, 141, 144
long-range missiles, 140, 141, 160, 161, 162
SCUD missiles
see rockets: R-11
see also atom bomb
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 89–91, 95, 116, 150, 210, 307
death, 119
‘fireside chats’, 94, 165
and Pearl Harbor, 103–4
quoted, 91
and war in Europe, 88–9, 93, 94, 95–6, 97
Roswell, New Mexico, 66, 67–8, 93
Goddard Museum, 176
Ryan, Claude/his airline, 30–4
quoted, 402, 418, 419–20
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 117–18, 320, 382–4
quoted, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 383
samdhi (expanded consciousness), 370, 372
Sandys, Duncan, 109
quoted, 114
satellites, 70, 147, 150–2, 153–4, 272, 348, 397
ATS, 273, 274, 320, 364, 397
broadcast pictures, 272–3
Department of Defense Gravitational Experiment (DODGE), 272, 273, 364
Discoverer, 179
dummy, 155
Explorer, 166, 167, 168, 178–9, 230
geosynchronicity, 272–3, 290–1
Intelsat/Early Bird, 273, 289
Sputnik, 156–9, 160, 161, 162–4, 166, 168, 213, 310
‘Sputnik panic’, 169–70
Sputnik 2, 164–5, 168
Sputnik 3, 168
spy, 154, 179
see also U-2 spy plane
Vanguard 1, 168
weather, 154, 179, 273
Schopenhauer, Arthur: quoted, 369
Sedov, Leonid, 164
quoted, 164
Shea, Joe, 269–70
Sikorsky, Igor, 116
quoted, 116–17
Smith, Truman, 87–8, 89, 89, 92
Smithsonian Institution, 60, 61, 63
National Air and Space
Museum, 178
Soviet Union
Communism/Communist, 101, 185, 220
Cold War, 163–4, 166, 185, 203, 220, 302
eye on German talent, 127, 129
potential fellow travellers, 213
Soviet Embassy in Washington, 157, 213
space exploration, 133–41, 146
US ease with Communism, 150
US fear of Communism, 86, 149, 159
World War II, 104, 126, 127
see also space race
Soyuz project, 261, 262, 271, 277–8
Zond missions, 277, 351
space docking, 233, 247, 249, 251, 253, 256, 259, 260, 277, 304, 309
space evacuation, 184, 194, 245–6, 279–80, 288
space laboratory, 188
space photography/picture
transmission, 199, 201, 240, 243, 255, 257, 260, 333, 418–19
Blue Marble shot, 351, 361–2, 367
of Earth from space, 240–2, 247, 249, 259, 263–5, 264, 274–5, 304–5, 349
partial/occluded, 178, 178–9
as a whole sphere, 286, 351, 361–8
Earthrise shot, 298, 300, 301, 302, 361, 362, 364, 367
of the moon, 232, 241, 262–5, 264, 319, 330, 343
Pale Blue Dot shot, 419–20
from V-2s/Aerobee, 142–3, 143
space planes, 249
X-15, 248–9
space race, 146, 153–4, 156–9, 168–70, 187, 188, 190, 229, 244–5, 261–2
arms race/missile gap, 160, 169, 186
domestic race, 165
moon race, 231, 236, 249, 277, 351
Russian ‘threat’, 150–1, 161, 174
space rendezvous, 232, 233, 239, 243
space shuttle, 232, 262, 416
space sickness, 288–9, 296, 304
space stations, 135, 147, 150, 180, 231–2, 335, 339
Salyut 1, 351
space theology, 203–6
spacewalk/Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA), 237, 240, 253–4, 257, 259, 260, 304, 343, 350, 370–1
Speer, Albert, 105–6, 107, 108, 111, 112–13
quoted, 105
Stalin, Joseph, 137, 138, 139–40
stamps, 51, 51, 302
Stapledon, Olaf: quoted, 368
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 394–5
quoted, 395, 420
Teller, Edward, 158, 169, 403
Thompson, William Irwin, 347, 369
Thoreau, Henry, 366
quoted, 377
Time magazine, 99, 141, 153, 174, 320, 370
The Times (London), 102
Toftoy, Colonel Holger Nelson, 124, 129, 144
Tolstoy, Lev, 134
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), 55–6
Treaty of Versailles, 27, 88–9
Truman, Harry S., 130, 150
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 64, 74, 133–6, 134, 147, 151–2
anticipates space travel, 134, 135
arrest and imprisonment, 135
quoted, 134, 135, 420
Underwood, Richard, 201–2, 240–2, 255–6, 263, 298, 323, 343, 349, 351, 361, 397–8
quoted, 240–1, 241, 263, 298, 324
urination
see space evacuation
U-2 spy plane, 185, 186, 188
Vanguard project, 152–9, 164, 166–7, 168, 171, 178
Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR), 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 112, 147, 148
funding, 77, 78
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 366
quoted, 368
Verne, Jules, 74, 134, 136, 296, 310
quoted, 420
Vidal, Gore: quoted, 393
Vietnam War, 196, 270, 307–8, 332, 401, 418
Vokshod project, 236, 260–5
crew, 236, 236
Volkswagen, 239, 310, 382, 388
vomiting
see space sickness
von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther, 107
von Braun, Baron Magnus, 74, 80, 144, 167
von Braun, Magnus Jr, 112, 127, 128
von Braun, Maria (née von Quistorp), 144, 149
von Braun, Sigismund, 80–1
von Braun, Wernher, 74–6, 110, 126–8, 128, 169, 275, 374, 399–400, 417
to/in America, 125, 129–30, 141–9
American citizenship, 148, 176
anticipates manned space flight, 81, 82, 168, 339
anticipates moon landings, 76, 77, 108–9, 129, 146
anticipates satellites, 128–9, 272, 397
anticipates space rockets, 112, 125, 128, 146
anticipates value of space photography, 304–5, 357
boyhood, 74–5
character, 77, 80, 110, 111, 146–7, 172–3, 250
collaborations with Disney, 148, 153, 166
courting danger, 173
excluded, 153, 164, 168, 170–1, 250, 396
fame, 148, 153, 165–6, 167–8, 172
his family, 74–5, 75–6, 79, 80
illness and death, 395, 398
included, 151, 159, 165, 167–8, 172, 274, 324
injured, 126
launches rockets, 77, 78, 81, 83, 105–8, 141–2, 145, 155, 177, 181, 184, 261
‘his masterpiece’: Saturn V, 273–5, 281–4, 351, 399–400
and Lyndon Johnson, 188
and Mars project, 395–6, 400, 416
The Mars Project, 147, 148, 232, 339
meets Hitler, 82, 105, 108
military promotions, 107, 108
and Moon Buggy, 340
and NASA, 171–2, 231
in ‘protective custody’ and release, 112–13
reading of international politics, 150, 162, 229, 397
religion/mysticism, 148–9, 336, 394–5
in the SS/on Nazi business, 106–7, 372, 396, 400–2
working for the German army, 78–9, 105
von Grosse, Aristid, 150, 151
von Kármán, Theodore, 70, 106
Kármán line, 106, 248–9
quoted, 70, 176–7
Vonnegut, Kurt: quoted, 397
Vostok (Soviet manned rocket programme), 170, 182–3, 187, 197, 260
Voyager project, 418–20, 421
Wainwright II, Loudon, 195, 196
Warhol, Andy Empire, 364
Waters, David, 410–14
Weather Bureau, 38, 64
Webb, James, 187, 188, 189, 190, 231, 233, 241, 269–70, 275
quoted, 230, 269
weightlessness/zero gravity, 20, 177, 197, 198, 246–7, 248, 254, 285, 287, 296, 343, 344, 422
Wendt, Guenther, 253, 283, 307
White Sands (rocket test site), 142, 143, 145, 372, 375
Wiesner, Jerome ‘Jerry’, 187, 189
quoted, 233
Wilson, Defense Secretary Charles E., 154, 155, 158
Wolfe, Tom, quoted, 402–3
The Right Stuff, 249
Woodruff, Dean, 315–17
quoted, 316–17
World War II, 82–3, 93–8, 103–4, 105–15, 116–30, 131–2, 150, 151, 372
Yangel, Mikhail, 186
Yeager, Chuck, 249
quoted, 249