Index

A

1. Aaron, John 1
2. AFD Conference Loop 1
3. Agena target vehicle 1, 2, 3
4. Agnew, Spiro 1, 2
5. Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz)
   1. after Apollo program 1
   2. Apollo 11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   3. background 1
   4. oldest moonwalker alive 1
   5. and being first out of Lunar Module 1
   6. Gemini 12 1
   7. Moon landing 1, 2
   8. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
   9. see also Apollo 11
6. Aldrin, Edwin Sr 1
7. Aldrin, Joan 1, 2
8. Aldrin, Lois 1
9. all-up testing 1
10. Allen, Harvey 1
11. ‘America’ (Apollo 17 Command Module) 1
12. Anders, William (Bill) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    1. quotes 1, 2
13. ‘Angry Alligator’ 1
14. Anikeyev, Ivan 1
15. ‘Antares’ (Apollo 14 Lunar Module) 1, 2
16. Apollo 1 1, 2
17. Apollo 4 1
18. Apollo 5 1
19. Apollo 6 1
20. Apollo 7 1, 2
21. Apollo 8 1, 2, 3, 4
22. Apollo 9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
23. Apollo 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
24. Apollo 11
    1. abort handle 1
    2. Armstrong chosen as commander 1
    3. astronauts on lunar surface 1
    4. chosen for first lunar landing 1
    5. descent towards lunar surface 1
    6. first man on lunar surface issue 1
    7. journey to the Moon 1
    8. landing site search 1
    9. launch 1
    10. orbiting Moon 1
    11. pre-launch preparation 1
    12. radars 1
    13. return to Earth 1
    14. significance 1
    15. timing of mission 1
    16. touchdown 1
25. Apollo 12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
26. Apollo 13 1
    1. abort decision 1
    2. crew selection 1
    3. oxygen tank problems 1, 2
    4. preparation 1
    5. re-entry 1
    6. return to Earth 1
    7. water problem 1
27. Apollo 14 1, 2
28. Apollo 15 1, 2
29. Apollo 16 1
30. Apollo 17 1
31. Apollo program
    1. announcement 1
    2. as faltering 1
    3. mission cancellations 1, 2, 3
    4. planning for 1
    5. summary 1
    6. White House discussion 1
32. Apollo-Soyuz docking mission 1
33. Apollo-Saturn 500-F 1
34. ‘Aquarius’ (Apollo 13 Lunar Module) 1, 2, 3
35. Armstrong, Carol (née Knight) 1
36. Armstrong, Jan 1
37. Armstrong, Neil
    1. after Apollo program 1, 2
    2. Apollo 11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    3. chosen as commander 1
    4. background 1, 2, 3
    5. death and memorial 1
    6. first Moon landing contender 1
    7. and being first out of Lunar Module 1
    8. first words on Moon 1
    9. Gemini 8 1
    10. LLRV incident 1
    11. and Lovell 1
    12. Moon landing 1, 2
    13. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4
    14. on Apollo 11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    15. recruitment 1, 2
    16. see also Apollo 11
38. Armstrong, Stephen Koenig 1
39. Atlas rocket 1, 2, 3, 4
40. ‘Aurora 7’ (Mercury capsule) 1

B

1. Babakin, Georgy 1
2. Babbitt, Don 1
3. Baikonur 1
4. Bales, Steve 1
5. Bassett, Charles 1
6. Bean, Alan 1
7. Becker, Karl 1
8. Belyayev, Pavel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
9. Beregovoi, Georgi 1, 2, 3
10. Beriya, Lavrenti 1
11. Berlin Wall 1
12. Bibby, Cecilia 1
13. Blagonravov, Anatoli 1
14. Block D booster stage 1, 2
15. Blok E 1
16. Borman, Frank
    1. and Apollo 1 1, 2, 3
    2. Apollo 8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    3. Gemini 7 1, 2
    4. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    5. recruitment 1
    6. and returning Moon astronauts 1
17. Borman, Susan 1
18. Bourgin, Si 1
19. Brezhnev, Leonid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
20. Bykovsky, Valeri 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

C

1. capsules, design 1, 2
2. Carlton, Bob 1, 2
3. Carpenter, Scott 1, 2, 3, 4
4. Carr, Gerry 1
5. Cernan, Gene 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
   1. Apollo 10 1
   2. Apollo 17 1
   3. last words on Moon 1
   4. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4
   5. on special few who went to Moon 1
6. Cernan, Tracy 1, 2
7. Chaffee, Roger 1
8. ‘Challenger’ (Apollo 17 Lunar Module) 1, 2
9. Challenger Space Shuttle accident 1
10. ‘Charlie Brown’ (Apollo 10 Command Module) 1
11. Chekunov, Boris 1
12. Chelomei, Vladimir 1, 2
13. Chertok, Boris 1
14. chimpanzees, in space 1, 2
15. Churchill, Winston 1, 2
16. CIA 1
17. Clarke, Rosemary 1
18. Cobb, Geraldyn (Jerrie) 1
19. Collins, James L. 1
20. Collins, Michael
    1. after Apollo program 1, 2
    2. on Aldrin 1
    3. and Apollo 8 1, 2, 3, 4
    4. Apollo 11 1, 2, 3, 4
    5. on Armstrong 1, 2
    6. background 1
    7. Gemini 10 1
    8. Paris Air Show 1
    9. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    10. see also Apollo 11
21. Collins, Pat 1
22. ‘Columbia’ (Apollo 11 Command Module) 1, 2, 3, 4
23. Columbus, Christopher 1
24. Command Module (CM) 1, 2, 3
    1. Apollo 1 1, 2, 3
    2. Apollo 9 (‘Gumdrop’) 1
    3. Apollo 10 (‘Charlie Brown’) 1
    4. Apollo 11 (‘Columbia’) 1, 2, 3, 4
    5. Apollo 12 (‘Yankee Clipper’) 1, 2
    6. Apollo 13 (‘Odyssey’) 1, 2, 3
    7. Apollo 14 (‘Kitty Hawk’) 1
    8. Apollo 15 (‘Endeavour’) 1
    9. Apollo 17 (‘America’) 1
    10. redesign 1
    11. test in space 1
25. Command and Service Module (CSM) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    1. Apollo 8 1, 2
26. Cone crater 1
27. Conrad, Charles (Pete) 1, 2
    1. Apollo 12 1, 2, 3
    2. Gemini 11 1
    3. quotes 1
    4. recruitment 1
28. Cooper, Gordon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
29. Copernicus crater 1, 2
30. cosmonauts, first 1
31. Council for the Problems of Mastering the Moon 1
32. crawler 1
33. cryogenics 1, 2
34. Cunningham, Walter 1, 2, 3, 4

D

1. Debus, Kurt 1
2. Descartes crater 1
3. Descartes highlands 1
4. Dezik (dog) 1
5. Disney, Walt 1
6. dogs, in space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
7. Dönitz, Karl 1
8. Dornberger, Walter 1, 2
9. Dryden, Hugh 1, 2
10. Duke, Charlie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

E

1. E-1 Moon probes 1
2. ‘Eagle’ (Apollo 11 Lunar Module) 1, 2, 3, 4
   1. communication problems 1, 2
   2. computer alarms 1
   3. landing 1, 2
   4. lift-off and docking 1
3. Earth, Lunar Orbiter 1 picture of 1
4. as spacecraft 1
5. ‘Earthrise’ picture 1
6. Einstein, Albert 1
7. Eisele, Donn 1, 2
8. Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
9. ‘Endeavour’ (Apollo 15 Command Module) 1
10. Engel, Viola Louise 1
11. Engle, Joe 1
12. Evans, Ron 1
13. Explorer 1 1

F

1. F-1 engines 1, 2, 3
2. Faget, Max 1, 2
3. ‘Faith 7’ (Mercury capsule) 1
4. ‘Falcon’ (Apollo 15 Lunar Module) 1
5. Feoktistov, Konstantin 1, 2, 3, 4
6. Filatev, Valentin 1
7. flags, on lunar surface 1, 2
8. Fra Mauro 1, 2, 3
9. ‘Friendship 7’ (Mercury capsule) 1

G

1. G levels 1
2. Gagarin, Alexei 1
3. Gagarin, Anna 1
4. Gagarin, Boris 1
5. Gagarin, Valentin 1
6. Gagarin, Valya 1
7. Gagarin, Yuri
   1. background 1, 2, 3
   2. chosen as first cosmonaut 1
   3. disciplined 1
   4. first space flight 1
   5. in ground role 1, 2, 3, 4
   6. and Soyuz program 1, 2, 3
   7. and Vostok 6 1
8. Gagarin, Zorya 1
9. Gallay, Mark 1
10. Gazenko, Oleg 1, 2
11. Gemini program 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    1. Gemini 3 1
    2. Gemini 4 1, 2
    3. Gemini 5 1
    4. Gemini 6 1
    5. Gemini 7 1, 2, 3, 4
    6. Gemini 8 1, 2
    7. Gemini 9 1
    8. Gemini 10 1
    9. Gemini 11 1
    10. Gemini 12 1
    11. importance 1
12. German measles 1
13. ‘Giant Leap’ tour 1
14. Gilruth, Robert (Bob) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
15. GIRD 1, 2
16. Glenn, Annie 1
17. Glenn, John
    1. at Armstrong memorial 1
    2. first space flight 1, 2, 3
    3. in Mercury Seven 1
    4. quotes 1, 2
    5. on Space Shuttle 1
    6. on women astronauts 1
18. Glennan, T. Keith 1, 2
19. Glushko, Valentin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
20. Goddard, Robert 1
21. Gordon, Dick 1, 2, 3
22. Göring, Hermann 1
23. Greaves, Jim 1
24. Grechko, Georgi 1
25. Grishin, Lev 1
26. Grissom, Gus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
27. Grizodubova, Valentina 1
28. Gromov, Mikhail 1
29. Grumman Aerospace Corporation 1, 2, 3
30. ‘Gumdrop’ (Apollo 9 Command Module) 1

H

1. Hadley Rille 1
2. Hagerty, James C. 1
3. Haise, Fred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
   1. quotes 1, 2
4. Haise, Mary 1
5. heat shields 1, 2, 3
6. Himmler, Heinrich 1, 2, 3
7. Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 3
8. Hodge, John 1, 2
9. Holmes, Brainerd 1, 2
10. Hornet, USS 1
11. Houbolt, John 1
12. House, William F. 1
13. House Rock 1
14. Humphrey, Hubert 1, 2
15. Huntsville (Alabama) 1, 2

I

1. Igla docking system 1, 2
2. Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) 1
3. International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1, 2, 3
4. ‘Intrepid’ (Apollo 12 Lunar Module) 1
5. Irwin, Jim 1
6. Ivanovsky, Oleg 1

J

1. J-2 engines 1
2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 1
3. Johnson, Lady Bird 1
4. Johnson, Lyndon B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   1. quotes 1, 2
   2. and space race 1, 2, 3
5. Jupiter-C rocket 1, 2, 3

K

1. Kamanin, Nikolai 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
   1. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
   2. and Soyuz program 1, 2
   3. and Voshkod project 1, 2
2. Kammler, Hans 1
3. Katys, Georgi 1
4. Keldysh, Mstislav 1, 2
5. Kelly, Fred 1
6. Kennedy, Jackie 1
7. Kennedy, John F.
   1. letter to 1
   2. and Moon mission 1, 2, 3, 4
   3. note at grave 1
   4. and space race 1, 2, 3
8. Kennedy, Robert 1
9. Kerwin, Joe 1, 2
10. Khrunov, Yevgeny 1
11. Khruschev, Nikita 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    1. and lunar probes 1
    2. and manned flights 1, 2, 3, 4
12. Khruschev, Sergei 1
13. King, Martin Luther 1
14. Kistiakowsky, George 1
15. ‘Kitty Hawk’ (Apollo 14 Command Module) 1
16. Kolyma death camp 1
17. Komarov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
18. Kondratyuk, Yuri Vasilyevich 1
19. Korolev, Sergei
    1. background 1
    2. death 1, 2
    3. and first manned flight 1, 2, 3, 4
    4. health problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    5. imprisonment 1
    6. and lunar probes 1, 2
    7. and rockets 1, 2, 3
    8. and satellites 1, 2
    9. and Voshkod project 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    10. and Vostok program 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
20. Korp, Christina 1
21. Kosygin, Alexei 1
22. Kraft, Chris 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
23. Kranz, Gene 1, 2, 3
    1. and Apollo 11 1
    2. and Apollo program 1, 2
    3. and Gemini program 1, 2
    4. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4
    5. on Apollo 11 1
    6. on Apollo 13 1, 2, 3
24. Kuznetsova, Tatyana 1

L

1. L1 Moon program 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
2. L3 project 1, 2
3. Laika (Kudryavka) 1
4. Leonov, Aleksai 1, 2, 3, 4
5. ‘Liberty Bell 7’ (Mercury capsule) 1
6. Liebergot, Sy 1
7. lifeboat, Lunar Module as 1
8. Lindbergh, Charles 1, 2
9. Lisa (dog) 1
10. lithium hydroxide 1, 2
11. Lousma, Jack 1, 2
12. Lovelace, William 1
13. Lovell, Jim
    1. Apollo 8 1, 2, 3
    2. and Apollo 11 1
    3. Apollo 13 1, 2, 3, 4
    4. and Armstrong 1
    5. Gemini 7 1, 2
    6. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4
    7. on Apollo 13 1, 2, 3, 4
    8. recruitment 1, 2
14. Lovell, Marilyn 1
15. Low, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
16. Luna probes 1, 2, 3
    1. Luna 15 1, 2, 3
17. Lunar Landing Reserve Vehicle (LLRV) 1
18. Lunar Module (LM) 1, 2, 3, 4
    1. Apollo 8 1, 2
    2. Apollo 9 (‘Spider’) 1
    3. Apollo 10 (‘Snoopy’) 1, 2
    4. Apollo 11 (‘Eagle’) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    5. communication problems 1, 2
    6. computer alarms 1
    7. landing 1, 2
    8. lift-off and docking 1
    9. Apollo 12 (‘Intrepid’) 1
    10. Apollo 13 (‘Aquarius’) 1, 2, 3
    11. Apollo 14 (‘Antares’) 1, 2
    12. Apollo 15 (‘Falcon’) 1
    13. Apollo 17 (‘Challenger’) 1, 2
    14. first flight test 1
    15. as lifeboat 1
    16. LM-4 1
    17. LM-5 1
19. lunar-orbit rendezvous 1, 2
20. Lunar Orbiter missions 1
    1. Lunar Orbiter 1 1
    2. Lunar Orbiter 2 1
    3. Lunar Orbiter 4 1
    4. Lunar Orbiter 5 1
21. Lunar Orbiter spacecraft 1
22. lunar probes 1, 2
23. Lunar Rover 1, 2, 3, 4
24. lunar scoop spacecraft 1
25. Lunney, Glynn 1, 2

M

1. MacLeish, Archibald 1
2. Man in Space films 1
3. Manned Spacecraft Center 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
4. Mare Cognitum 1
5. Mare Imbrium 1
6. Mariner spacecraft 1
7. Mars 1
8. mass concentrations (mascons) 1
9. Mathews, Charles 1
10. Mattingly, Ken 1, 2, 3
11. Mayer, Johnny 1
12. McDivitt, Jim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    1. recruitment 1
13. McDivitt, Patricia 1
14. McDonnell, Jim 1
15. McDonnell Aircraft Corporation 1, 2
16. McElroy, Neil 1
17. Medaris, John B. 1
18. Ménière’s disease 1, 2
19. Menshikov 1
20. Mercury 13 1
21. Mercury program 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
22. Mercury Seven 1, 2, 3
23. Merritt Island 1
24. MET 1
25. Mishin, Vasili 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
26. Mitchell, Edgar 1
27. Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) 1
28. Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET) 1
29. Mondale, Walter 1
30. Moon
    1. composition data collection 1
    2. dark side 1
    3. first artificial satellite 1
    4. first probe to strike 1
    5. first soft landing 1
    6. geology 1
    7. magnetic field 1
31. moonwalks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
32. Moore, John 1
33. Morrow, Lola 1
34. Mueller, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
35. Muller, Paul 1

N

1. N1 booster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2. NASA
   1. creation 1, 2
   2. and government cuts 1
3. NASA Center 1
4. National Air and Space Museum 1
5. Nedelin, Mitrofan 1, 2, 3, 4
6. Nelyubov, Grigori 1, 2, 3, 4
7. New Nine 1
8. night-time launch, first 1
9. Nikolayev, Andriyan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
10. Nixon, Richard M. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
11. North American Aviation 1, 2, 3
12. North American Rockwell 1, 2
13. North Ray Crater 1

O

1. Oberammergau 1
2. Oberth, Hermann 1, 2
3. Object D 1
4. Obraztsov (Academician) 1
5. Ocean of Storms 1, 2, 3
6. ‘Odyssey’ (Apollo 13 Command Module) 1, 2, 3
7. O’Hara, Dee 1, 2
8. ‘one small step’ 1, 2
9. Outer Space Treaty 1

P

1. Paine, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
2. Pashkov, Giorgi 1
3. peace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
4. Peenemunde 1, 2
5. Petrone, Rocco 1
6. Petrovsky, Boris 1
7. Phillips, Sam 1, 2
8. Pickering, William 1
9. Pioneer probes 1
   1. Pioneer 1 1
   2. Pioneer 2 1
10. Ponomareva, Valentina 1, 2, 3, 4
11. Popovich, Marina 1
12. Popovich, Pavel 1, 2, 3
13. Powers, Shorty 1
14. Presidential Medal of Freedom 1
15. Propst, Gary 1
16. Proton rocket 1, 2, 3, 4

R

1. R-5 rocket 1
2. R-7 rocket 1, 2, 3, 4
3. R-16 rocket 1
4. Ranger spacecraft 1
5. Redstone rocket 1, 2, 3
6. regolith 1
7. Roosa, Stuart 1

S

1. satellites
   1. early development 1
   2. first in orbit 1
   3. see also Explorer 1; Sputnik
2. Saturn rocket 1
   1. Saturn 1B 1
   2. Saturn 5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
3. Savitskaya, Svetlana 1
4. Schirra, Walter (Wally) 1, 2
   1. Apollo 7 1
   2. first space flight 1
   3. Gemini 6 1
   4. quotes 1, 2, 3
5. Schmitt, Harrison 1
6. Schweickart, Russell 1
7. Scott, David (Dave) 1, 2
   1. Apollo 15 1
   2. Paris Air Show 1
   3. quote 1
8. Sea of Rains 1
9. Sea of Tranquillity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
10. Seamans, Robert (Bob) 1, 2, 3
11. Sedov, Leonid 1, 2
12. See, Elliot 1
13. seismic response experiments 1
14. Service Module (SM) 1, 2
    1. Apollo 10 1, 2
    2. Apollo 13 1, 2
    3. Apollo 16 1
    4. test in space 1
15. Service Propulsion System 1
16. Severin, Guy 1
17. Shatalov, Vladimir 1, 2
18. Shea, Joe 1
19. Sheer, Julian 1
20. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1
21. Shepard, Alan
    1. Apollo 14 1
    2. at White House 1
    3. background 1
    4. first space flight 1
    5. and Gemini program 1
    6. Ménière’s disease 1, 2
    7. in Mercury Seven 1, 2, 3
    8. oldest to walk on Moon 1
    9. quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
22. Shepard, Louise 1
23. Shoemaker, Gene 1
24. Shonin, Georgi 1
25. ‘Sigma 7’ (Mercury capsule) 1
26. Sinus Medii 1
27. Sjogren, William 1
28. Slayton, Deke
    1. and Apollo 1 disaster 1
    2. and Apollo 11 1, 2
    3. Apollo-Soyuz docking mission 1
    4. and astronaut recruitment 1, 2, 3
    5. and astronaut selection 1, 2, 3
    6. and Gemini program 1, 2
    7. grounded 1
    8. in Mercury Seven 1
    9. quotes 1, 2, 3
29. Smoky Mountains 1
30. ‘Snoopy’ (Apollo 10 Lunar Module) 1
31. Society of Experimental Test Pilots 1
32. solar-wind experiment 1
33. Solovyeva, Irina 1, 2, 3, 4
34. Soyuz program 1, 2, 3, 4
    1. Soyuz 1 1
    2. Soyuz 2 1, 2
    3. Soyuz 3 1
35. Soyuz spacecraft 1, 2
36. space endurance record 1
37. Space Shuttle 1
38. Space Task Group 1, 2
39. Spacecraft 12 1
40. spacesuit overheating 1
41. spacewalks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
42. ‘Spider’ (Apollo 9 Lunar Module) 1
43. Sputnik 1
    1. Sputnik 2 1
44. Stafford, Tom 1
    1. Apollo 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    2. first Moon landing contender 1
    3. and Gemini program 1, 2, 3
    4. quotes 1, 2
    5. recruitment 1
45. Stalin, Joseph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
46. Staver, Robert 1
47. Stone Mountain 1
48. Surveyor spacecraft 1, 2
    1. Surveyor 3 1, 2
    2. Surveyor 4 1
    3. Surveyor 5 1
    4. Surveyor 6 1
    5. Surveyor 7 1, 2
49. Swigert, Jack 1, 2, 3

T

1. Taurus-Littrow highlands 1, 2
2. Teller, Edward 1
3. Tereshkova, Valentina 1, 2, 3
4. Thor–Able rocket 1
5. ‘thumper’ 1
6. Tikhonravov, Mikhail 1, 2
7. Titan rocket 1
8. Titov, Gherman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
9. Toftoy, Holger 1, 2
10. tortoises, in space 1
11. Triplet craters 1
12. Truman, Harry S. 1
13. Tsander, Friedrikh 1, 2
14. Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
15. Tsygan (dog) 1
16. Tukhachevski, Marshal 1
17. Tupolev, Andrei 1, 2
18. Tycho crater 1
19. Tyulin, Georgi 1, 2

U

1. urination 1
2. Ustinov, Dimitri 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

V

1. V-2 rocket 1
2. Van Allen, James 1
3. Van Allen radiation belts 1
4. Vanguard rocket 1, 2
5. Vavilov, Anatole 1
6. Venus 1
7. Verne, Jules 1
8. Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) 1
9. Vietnam 1
10. Vishnevsky, Dr 1
11. Voloshin, Valeri 1
12. Volynov, Boris 1, 2
13. von Braun, Magnus 1
14. von Braun, Wernher 1
15. and Apollo program 1, 2, 3
    1. at White Sands 1, 2
    2. background 1
    3. and first US manned flight 1, 2
    4. on Russian Moon mission 1
    5. and satellites 1, 2, 3
    6. space travel vision 1
    7. and V-2 1, 2
16. Voshkod project 1, 2, 3
    1. Voshkod 2 1, 2
    2. Voshkod 3 1, 2, 3
    3. Voshkod 4 1
    4. Voshkod 5 1, 2
17. Vostok program 1, 2
    1. first manned flight 1
    2. test flights 1, 2, 3
18. Vostok 3 1
19. Vostok 4 1
20. Vostok 5 1
21. Vostok 6 1

W

1. Webb, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   1. and Apollo program 1, 2, 3
   2. departure from NASA 1
   3. and Gemini program 1, 2
   4. quotes 1
   5. and rocket assembly 1
2. Weird crater 1
3. Welles, Orson 1
4. Wendt, Guenter 1, 2
5. White, Ed 1, 2, 3, 4
6. White, Patricia 1, 2
7. Wiesner, Jerome 1, 2
8. Williams, Walt 1

Y

1. Yangel, Mikhail 1, 2
2. ‘Yankee Clipper’ (Apollo 12 Command Module) 1, 2
3. Yazdovsky, Vladimir 1
4. Yeager, Chuck 1
5. Yegorov, Boris 1
6. Yeliseyev, Aleksei 1
7. Yerkina, Zhanna 1, 2
8. Yesenin, Tolya 1
9. Yezhov, Nikolai 1
10. Young, John
    1. Apollo 10 1, 2
    2. Apollo 16 1
    3. Gemini 3 1
    4. Gemini 10 1
    5. quote 1
    6. recruitment 1

Z

1. Zond 4 1, 2
2. Zond 5 1, 2, 3
3. Zond 6 1
4. Zvezdny Gorodok 1