Rockets and People by Boris Chertok

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In Volume 1, Chertok describes his early years as
an engineer and ends with the mission to Germany
after the end of World War II when the Soviets
captured Nazi missile technology and expertise.
Volume 2 takes up the story with the development
of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM) and ends with the launch of Sputnik and
the early Moon probes. In Volume 3, Chertok recollects
the great successes of the Soviet space program
in the 1960s including the launch of the world's first
space voyager Yuriy Gagarin as well as many events
connected with the Cold War. Finally, in Volume 4,
Chertok meditates at length on the massive Soviet
lunar project designed to beat the Americans to the
Moon in the 1960s, ending with his remembrances
of the Energiya-Buran project.
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