posted February 03, 2005 03:22 PM
New in the NASA History series...Rockets and People (Volume I)
by Boris Chertok
Edited by Asif Siddiqi with a foreword by Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.)
(Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-2005-4110), pp. 402 + xix, hardcover.
Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap.
Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious “Chief Designer” Sergey Korolev. Chertok’s sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes (volumes two through four are forthcoming), Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society’s quest to explore the cosmos.
This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, an expert on Soviet space history, and Gen. Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.
How to order: Please contact the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information, 7121 Standard Drive Hanover, MD 21076, 301-621-0390, help@sti.nasa.gov, Online Order Form: https://www.sti.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ordersti.pl, NASA Report #: NASASP20054110. (CASI does not use punctuation or other characters for books) , Title: Rockets and People. The price code is A03 (Within U.S. $27.50 plus $2.00 shipping and handling: Outside U.S. $55.00 plus $17.00 S&H).
This book also may be purchased from the NASA Information Center, Code CMI-1, NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, Room 1H23, Washington, DC 20546-0001, (202) 358-0000. Order NASA SP-2005-4110.
posted February 03, 2005 03:22 PM
