ROCKETS AND PEOPLE: SOVIET PIONEERS OF THE RUSSIAN SPACE AGE

By ABIGAIL LEWIS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION:A DEBT TO MY GENERATION ON THE TIMES AND MY CONTEMPORARIES BETWEEN TWO AERODROMES SCHOOL IN THE TWENTIES FACTORY NO IN THE BOLKHOVITINOV DESIGN BUREAU AND KOSTR ARCTIC TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES “EVERYTHING REAL IS RATIONAL” RETURN TO BOLKHOVITINOV ON THE EVE OF WAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR IN THE URALS 15 MAY BACK IN MOSCOW MOSCOW—POZNAN—BERLIN MAY DAYS IN BERLIN WHAT IS PEENEMÜNDE? TO THURINGIA NORDHAUSEN—CITY OF MISSILES AND DEATH BIRTH OF THE INSTITUTE RABE OPERATION “OST” SPECIAL INCIDENTS IN SEARCH OF A REAL BOSS KOROLEV, GLUSHKO, AND OUR FIRST ENCOUNTERS IN GERMANY ENGINE SPECIALISTS THE INSTITUTE NORDHAUSEN