The majority of the quotations featured in this book are from the author’s personal interviews with Neil Armstrong, Charles Duke, Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, Walter Cunningham, Eugene Cernan, Pete Conrad, and George Low, or from NASA’s Oral History projects (www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm).
Also included are a number of quotations that have appeared widely in space-related literature; a selected bibliography can be found on page 313.
Additional specific sources are listed below.
1 ‘THEY HAD BECOME …’ Cincinnati Magazine, March 1972.
2 ‘I AM, AND EVER WILL BE …’ Speech to National Press Club, 22 February 2000.
1 ‘WE ARE GREATLY INTERESTED …’ Werner Von Braun, Rocket Engineer, Helen B. Walters (New York: Macmillan, 1964).
2 ‘THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INTOLERABLE …’ Challenge to Apollo, Asif Siddiqi (NASA publication).
3 ‘DEAR COMRADE STALIN …’ Baberdin writing in Krasnaya Zvezda, 30 April 1994.
4 ‘I HAD BEEN GIVEN …’ Korolev, Golovanov (Moscow: Nauka, 1994).
5 ‘WE CAN DREAM ABOUT ROCKETS …’ The Rocket Team, Ordway and Sharpe (MIT, 1982).
6 ‘IN MY OPINION IT WILL BE POSSIBLE …’ ‘Soviets Planning Early Satellite,’ New York Times, 3 August 1955.
7 ‘IF THE MAIN TASK DOESN’T SUFFER …’ Memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013).
8 ‘WHEN THINGS ARE GOING BADLY …’ Target America, S. Zaloga (Preside Press, 1993).
9 ‘NOBODY WILL HURRY US …’ US Dept of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, USSR Space, February 1988.
1 ‘OH. FRANKLY I NEVER …’ Memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013).
1 ‘I COULD HEAR THE SOUND …’ Life Magazine, 9 March 1962.