This chapter from my 1981 book “Red Star in Orbit ”was an outgrowth of my research paper, “Korolev, Khrushchev, and Sputnik”, published in 1977 in the British Interplanetary Society’s monthly magazine ‘Spacef

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• Science and technology in the Soviet Union
• Sergei Korolev
• Space Race
• Valentin Glushko
• Group for the Study of Reactive Motion
• Soviet space program
• Korolyov
• Sputnik 1
• Sharashka
• Spaceflight
• Soviet Union
• Rocket scientists