Rockets and People, Volume III, Hot Days of the Cold War

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Contents

The Cold War
1
Preparation for Piloted Flights
15
The First Piloted Spaceflight Were Off
55
The Cuban Missile Crisis and Mars
85
Strategic Missile Selection
105
Correcting the Great Ones Mistakes
159
After Gagarin Others Will Fly
187
Man and Woman
217
The Molniya1 Communications Satellite
453
Molniya1 in Space and more
491
Korolevs Last Days Death and Funeral
517
Birth of the Soyuzes
559
Flying the Soyuz
597
The Death of Komarov
629
On the Distant Star Venus
653
First Rendezvous and Docking
665

The Voskhods and the First Space walk
229
Radio Engineering Digression
281
Star Wars
303
Spying from Space
333
The Hard Road to a Soft Landing
373
Last Launches Under Korolev
415
HearttoHeart Conversation
681
Zond4
697
Academic Digression
731
Index
755
NASA History Series
785
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