Full Text Search Details
...Rockets and PeopleVolume II: Creating a Rocket Industry ... ...cket Industry Rockets and People ... ... Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry ... ...on DataChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i lyudi. English] Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry (Volume II) / by Boris E. ... ... The Alliance with Sciencesparkling Borzhomi mineral water from the bottle standing on the director’s desk. During the firs... ...uffling the staff, including the director’s secretary.with four half-liter bottles of vodka, four empty beer mugs, and two large pitchers ... ...r the rigfigures. Judging by the empty tea glasses, Borzhomi mineral water bottles, sandwich tests had already been pushed back a wee... ...d Myths] (Moscow: Nauka, 1994). Korolev moved through manypartments over a bottle of cognac. Afraid to interrupt Korolev, we listened as he ... ... was sent to teasing us, he offered us a swig from his bottle, but we couldn’t manage to swallow.all the submarine compartments an...

Full Text Search Details
... chertok cover full 12/21/04 1:51 PM Page 1 Rockets Rockets and People R... ...te the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread ... ... Boris E. Chertok5-4110 chertok cover full 12/21/04 1:51 PM Page 1 Rockets Rockets and People R... ...te the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread ... ... comrades and I stashed a couple dozen 3- and 6-inch unexploded shells and bottle-necked and fragmentation hand grenades under the porch of ou... ... a liquid-propellant rocket engine on a bench.7 Its shape reminded me of a bottle.When I understood what a voracious bottle it was, and how mu... ...uired would be reduced.All we needed from Kostikov and Dushkin was the “bottle.”3 Beginning that Tuesday, everyone who did not live nea... ... division commander, was sitting at a large table set with all kinds of bottles and hors d’oeuvres.Another ten or so mili- tary men, who... ...nvented here?! It’s an airplane, but not our pitiful BI, with a 1.5 metric ton bottle. This one had 100 metric tons of sheer fire! That damned eng...

Full Text Search Details
...aChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i lyudi. English] Rockets and People: The Moon Race (Volume IV) / byBoris E. Chertok ; [e... ...reviations xxxv Introduction: Voice of the People… xli 1 Rocket-Space Chronology (Historical Overview) 1 2 U.S. Lunar Pr... ...ailures of the Soviet space program, consti-tutes the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these four volumes,Academician Chertok not only desc... ...Chertok’s narrative underlines how, from the beginning of the ColdWar, the rocketry projects of the two nations evolved in independent butparallel pat... ... the extraordinary Sovietefforts to collect, catalog, and reproduce German rocket technology afterWorld War II provide a parallel view to what histori... ... laughing Mishin flashed by. Afanasyev’s usually worried face lit up whena bottle of champagne was smashed against the erector. Shards of green glassw... ... 209Rockets and People: The Moon Raceme—and burst into my office with a bottle of cognac. After brief speecheslisting my shortcomings and my achiev... ... keep my eyes open, and all of a sudden Glushko arrived. He broughthis own bottle. Courteously, as only he knows how, he apologized, but saidvery adam... ...d himself and me a glass as equals. Little by little we almostfinished the bottle. True, it was top-notch vodka, Posolskaya (Ambassadorial),and there ...

Full Text Search Details
...Engineering the Space Age A Rocket Scientist Remembers RobeRt V. bRulle Lieutena... ...ion Center Cataloging DataBrulle, Robert V. Engineering the space age : a rocket scientist remembers / Robert V. Brulle. p. ; cm. Includes bibliog... ...mini space capsule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Atlas rocket boosts Mercury into orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126M... ... climb vertically andperform breathtaking maneuvers. The new discipline of rocketpropulsion led to the development of missiles, both big andsmall, tha... ...nia (now Edwards AFB). Capt ChuckYeager, flying the Bell XS- experimental rocket aircraft, exceeded AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERINGt... ... to buy his crew chief a case of beer for fixing it and also had to buy a bottle of liquor for the squadron bar. More modern aircraft, F-18E/Fs and ... ...Coke-bottling, since it shaped the fuselage much like theclassic Coca-Cola bottle.10 Historical Note Practical applications of this... ...hnology 19, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 60–63. 10. One of the most pronounced Coke-bottled aircraft is the Northrop F-5or the trainer version T-38 Talon. 11....

Full Text Search Details
...ataChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i lyudi. English] Rockets and People: Hot Days of the Cold War (Volume III) / byBoris E. Cher... ... failures of the Soviet space program, constitutes the core of hismemoirs, Rockets and People. In these four volumes, Academician Chertok notonly desc... ...Chertok’s narrative underlines how, from the beginning of the Cold War,the rocketry projects of the two nations evolved in independent but parallelpat... ... the extraordinary Soviet efforts tocollect, catalog, and reproduce German rocket technology after the World WarII provide a parallel view to what his... ... and help Lenaprepare the zakuski. I took the enormous watermelon and two bottles of cognac out of thefridge. When everything was ready, we heard a r... ...the cottageand demanded that they pour “not our last drink,” but alas! The bottles wereempty. While everyone excitedly discussed the historic signific... ...ed the historic significance of the “Allclear” command, Lena brought out a bottle of “three star” cognac from somesecret stash. Once again the Mars ro... ...plained. Turning to me, Mishin announced cheerfully, “Boris, you owe me a bottleof cognac: the steering drive couldn’t restrain the chamber, which ex... ...m on the spacecraft. One evening after the R-9 failure, we were sharing a bottle of cognacamong the six of us and trying to pick up Voice of America ...

Description Details
...d by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows! Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pi...

Full Text Search Details
...t © 2014 Jose E. Cepeda. All rightsreserved. Reprinted with permission. The Rocket Molly Syndicate.Copyright © 2014 John Taylor. All rights reserved. ... ...e Boring…………………….188Darkness Eternal: Over the South China Sea……………….219The Rocket Molly Syndicate………………………………..253World of Mañana: Storming Shangri-L... ...hevoices addresses the captive man and his mind digs into his past.The room rockets with a biting coolness as his ears dial in on the dualvoices. One ... ... came into the office; her eyebrow rose in a questioning manner.She saw the bottle and smiled; then sauntered over and sat in my lapcrossing her long ... ...ding their day, and early birds,beginning theirs. Loaded drunks spill empty bottles of booze fromtaxicabs then fumble to their front doors. Elsewhere,... ...mtaxicabs then fumble to their front doors. Elsewhere, milkmen deliverfresh bottles to metal boxes outside the homes of children still dreaming inbed.... ... stomps the gas pedal. The throttle gulps more air, and the car-of-tomorrow rockets away. For a moment, it looks like she's going to pass theBuick, bu... ...n, sweltering charisma.Vivian fidgeted, looking first at the row of glowing bottles behind themahogany bar, then nervously at her hands, studying her ... ... pouring out of the saloon.It was punctuated with a steady beat of smashing bottles. But no firearmdischarges. Which meant, by city law, they couldn’t...

Excerpt Details
...o sneak through the crowd of rough and tough-looking men hanging around there, the bigger one of the two Varanoides addressed the bartender. ‘Alcohol bottle two price minimum’ the Varanoide hissed. Their different respiratory tracts made it somewhat difficult for Varanoides to speak human languages. The second problem then came from human language grammar, which was strang...

Full Text Search Details
... hanging around there, the bigger oneof the two Varanoides addressed the bartender. ‘Alcohol bottle two price minimum’ theVaranoide hissed. Their diff... ...trange to the Varanoides.Anyway, the bartender guessed that the Varanoide wanted to have two bottles of thecheapest alcohol available. He slowly turne... .... The bartender did as asked for. Theone Varanoide took them both and handed over one of the bottles to the other one. Then,the aliens opened the bott... ...hat patient. He was still red of anger at the redVaranoides who had wasted his expensive two bottles of alcohol. He had wanted to invitethem to a drin... ... had not served to cool his body and certainly ithad not cooled his temper. He took an empty bottle and threw if at the retreatingVaranoides. The bott... ...ong a softly rolling extra-dimensional stream. It was a customversion of a New Triumph Hyper Rocket X. With the galaxy’s biggest production spacehoppe... ...cket X. With the galaxy’s biggest production spacehopper engine the latest New Triumph Hyper Rocket X surpassed the huge performanceoutput of the orig... ...ssis, rigid frame and sophisticated suspension gave the rider of the latest New TriumphHyper Rocket X the confidence to sweep through hyperspace swirl... ...,comfortable, powerful hopper and it was outrageously expensive. The latest New TriumphHyper Rocket X was so expensive that hardly ever anyone bought ...

Excerpt Details
...mblazoned on the peaks. The students screamed at an ear-splitting volume. The stand was like an erupting volcano. “Go, Dynamo!” one screamed, as a bottle smashed over his head. It was an unequal duel between the galleries. On the turf, the crowd boiled over with excitement. “Huuuuu!”...

Full Text Search Details
...backgammon games under their arms, playing cards in their pockets and wine bottleshidden under a coat or stashed in a bag. The crowd sprawled on the s... ...The stand was like anerupting volcano. “Go, Dynamo!” one screamed, as a bottle smashed over his head. It was an unequal duel between the galleri... ... center ran,ran, ran after the ball as it went out of bounds. “Come on, rocket!” Donose slipped without the ball. “Hey Costică, fall down lik... ...ds with sexy women lay in an organised heap on the table, along with empty bottles orhalf-full ones with brandy and bitters. The stifled wheezing of a... ...him. He opened his bleary eyes. In a glass window ofthe bookcase, coloured bottles of Scotch whisky and cherry wine laughed back at him …packs of Kent... ...reath.Puzzled, he was overtaken by a sudden fury and noisily broke all the bottles on the table.He fell flat on the bed. From the other room, he he...

Excerpt Details
...A few decades after the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) was published the genie was out of the bottle. Supported by the General Theory of Relativity too, nothing in physics was impossible anymore: light has the magic property of being c relative to whatever reference: the most unphysical, to express it mildly, hypothes...

Full Text Search Details
...tivity”.A few decades after the STR was published the genie was out of the bottle. Supported by the GeneralTheory of Relativity too, nothing in physic... ... reaction also produces a large amount of energy, given its application in rocket launchings.The essential source has to be found in the atomic/molecu...

Description Details
...rail at injustice and offer love instead. One poem, Toward Hope, might well have been the title of the collection – “Say a word, oh poet/ the word as rocket to hit/ the hearts made of stone”. HereNow is such a rocket." Dr Patrick Lodge Ireand/ Walles When a writing by a non-English native author is of the caliber that is exceptional in its exquisite versatility, an ...

Full Text Search Details
...efor the ozone odor to dispel all the dirt!Say a word, oh Poet, the Wordas rocket to hit the hearts made of stoneto dismantle the Machinery of Hatredf... ...offin of a Female CorpseFor many years, Auntie keptthe cerements and glass bottles of Moschusa gift from a Hajji-father from overtwenty-some years ago... ...l have been thetitle of the collection – “Say a word, oh poet / theword as rocket to hit / the hearts made of stone”.HERENOW is such a rocket.Prof. Pa...

Full Text Search Details
...er 3:Hideout 6Chapter 4:Strange Rockets 8Chapter 5:Meeting Time ... ...a new base from this outbreak. 7Chapter 4:Strange Rockets Nick P.O.V As the Ak-947 and the S.S. Adam with the Gray Fleet ... ...e Ak-947 and the S.S. Adam with the Gray Fleet escaped thebase but strange rockets came getting closer to us.”There has to be asurvivor trying to kill... ...vor trying to kill us or contact us and or those things know how toshoot a rocket launcher.” I whisper to Sam and Charlie “ Hopefully not,Idon’t want ... ...ot,Idon’t want them to use a gun .”Sam whisper back I look outside to seea rocket blow up Gray Fleet 3 with Tom inside.”No everybody Tom’sship’s been ... ...ot blown up also sorry for your loss but I didn’t forget tobring the water bottles that was left.” Scarlett P.O.V These people are super nice and ...

Excerpt Details
... mouths move as they talk and not being connected to the communications terminal Grailem cannot hear what they are saying. The scientist is handed a bottle of a gold coloured liquid and Grailem's stress levels rise. The scientist carefully opens the jar and pours the golden fluid into Grailem's tank of bioplasm. The effect of the liquid upon Grailem's brain is instant...

Full Text Search Details
...erminal Grailem cannot hear what they aresaying. The scientist is handed a bottle of a gold coloured liquid and Grailem's stress levels rise. The sci... ...plas that surrounds him and tries to gainaccess to the control room of the rocket. As he had occupied the cargo hold at the front it wasnecessary for ... ...equipment.Gaining access to the controls proved to be no advantage; as the rocket had been pre-programmed. Grailem's attempt at overriding the system... ... the system results in a short circuit that ignites the remaining fuel.The rocket explodes in a ball of flame; the force of the explosion hurtling him...

Table of Contents Details
........ 128 1—Find your guts in tough situations .............................................................. 128 2—Doing two things at once is not rocket science .......................................... 128 3—Don’t tolerate waste. .................................................................................. 129 4—Don’t give in to bullying, whether you are a chi...

Full Text Search Details
............................................. 128 2—Doing two things at once is not rocket science .......................................... 128 3... ...investor in the world. A2,000-fold return for his investors. Eschewing gimmicks and rocket science.Investing in solid fundamentals.As an American inve... ... goin’. People aren’t gonna throw their time or money away on somebody who gets a bottle of Thunderbird wine and lies down on the sidewalk—but, if ... ...e was always ‘Miss Rachel’ tohim.” (White, 20) Coping, Willie Lee kept his emotions bottled up closely. And worked constantly.It was the only way to s... ...ily. Against all odds. She had guts.Guts to spare.2—Doing two things at once is not rocket scienceDorothy, Hillary’s mother, was, in simple words, a h... ...ally big—batch of saladdressing. From vinegar, oil, and herbs. Filled into old wine bottles and given tofamily and friends. As the now legend goes, he... ...ets across America were beating down the door to get onboard and sell the eponymous bottles: Newman’s Own Olive Oil and VinegarDressing. Demand was so... ...r. In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time. n.d.Perdue, Theda. The Che... ...obs and Steve Wozniak, the son of FrancisWozniak, a brilliant Cal Tech graduate and rocket scientist at Lockheed. Theywere remarkably similar in some ...

Full Text Search Details
...bout 600 had been sent to the front. 31 Arnoldhad witnessed the production bottlenecks firsthand and wouldremember the consequences of a failed produc... ...aircraft windshield deicing, jet assisted takeoff (JATO)system (actually a rocket), and a host of aircraft and engine designmodifications. Many of the... ...ever understood how “a serious engineer orscientist could play around with rockets.” l2 Arnold knew thatGALCIT had already demonstrated some success i... ...t appreciated. JATO represented potential fundingfor the struggling GALCIT Rocket Research Project, established in1936. This project, also known as GA... ... the British. Very little is coming to us. ...Engines are the neck of the bottle more than anything else and England has priority on engines. So, ta... ...1941. After a failed static firing resulted in aspectacular explosion, the rockets were affixed to the underside ofthe Ercoupe’s wings, near the wing ... ...the onlookers observed. A successfulairborne confidence firing test of the rockets was completed on 6August, but the big test was yet to come. 30 On ...

Full Text Search Details
...SSC)—would bring its own expertiseto NASA’s goals, whether in aeronautics, rocket technology, launch facilities,space science, or human spaceflight. ... ...test flights NASA officials planned to con-duct in late 1966. The Saturn V rocket, later a symbol of technical invincibility, 8drew similar concerns. ... ...encounter while riding a giant pogo stick. The J-2engines for the Saturn V rocket presented “the inevitable gaggle of problems”and “difficulties in ma... ...rt to return to the Moon and explorebeyond. Management difficulties, balky rockets, fixed program budgets, flat ordeclining total appropriations, cost... ...ley ResearchCenter that directed Project Mercury and the 125-person German rocket team.Speaking of the ABMA and its German rocketeers, one leader of t... ...lted Figure 1: Richard Whitcomb, the NACA scientist whoin the “Coke-bottle” or wasp-waist developed the “area rule” theory. NASA Image ...

Full Text Search Details
... Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) is credited with the idea of liquid-fueled rockets and the design of reaction-rocket en- gines. In a 1929 essay... ...d the design of reaction-rocket en- gines. In a 1929 essay, “Cosmic Rocket Trains,” Tsiolkovsky pro- posed the idea of linking rockets t... ...together and then sequentially firing them—a concept known today as rocket stages.3 Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945) was on the American va... ... NECESSARY PRECONDITIONS ricated, experimented with, and launched rockets. His first suc- cessful rocket flight on 16 March 1926 flew ... ...near the end of World War II and while working for the US Navy, his rockets had reached speeds of 700 mph and an al- titude of 15 miles.... ...hang soda straws by a cross pin, light one end and insert it into a bottle, and watch them pop to the ceiling. A “rather heated argument...

Full Text Search Details
...at moment a tall stripling on the pier raced to the edge of it, shotlike a rocket head-foremost into the sea, and in a second or tworeappeared with th... ... Bluenose put his mouth close to hisear and shouted:"Couldn't ye send up a rocket?""Han't got any," replied Bax.There had been a signal-gun aboard, bu... ...m,and in a few seconds they had the comfort of seeing the bright flame ofa rocket shoot up into the sky. At the same moment a flash in thedistance sho... ...e sound of the gun was not heard by those on the wreck, but both itand the rocket were observed from the shore, where many a hardyseaman and pilot, kn... ...us nodof the head, the skipper staggered on and possessed himself of acase-bottle about three-quarters full of rum, with which he returned tothe deck ... ... to point inall directions at once; "come, I'll have another pull at the b-bottle tosteady me."He grasped the bottle to carry out this intention, but ... ...r to starboard. The skipperwas pitched into the lee scuppers, and the case-bottle of rum was 196shivered to atoms before he ha... ... have gone down below, was hurled against thecabin bulkhead, and the glass bottle he held to his lips was shivered toatoms. With his face cut and blee... ...r Mrs Foster was, as she rushedabout the room in search of water and scent-bottles, she was takenaback somewhat by the warmth of these expressions, wh...

Full Text Search Details
...V). Heavilyloaded with general-purpose bombs, air-to-surface missiles, and rockets,A-10 FACs struck and marked targets for NATO aircraft from 10 natio... ...olling strikers onto a typical tar-get; your tactics for marking a target (rockets, talk-on, flare, and gun); a typical mission(mission duration, numb... ...ht 23gear, they each pack an extra survival radio and bottles of frozen water.4The pilots step to the jet 45 minutes prior to tak... ...ountry” (South Vietnam) CAS missions.7 F-100F with combat load (note the rocket pod on the outboard station and the external fuel tanks on the inb... ...g, and allows for target marking. The standard load-out includestwo LAU-59 rocket pods on the outer stations, each containing seven2.75-inch folding-f... ... each containing seven2.75-inch folding-fin white phosphorous (Willy Pete) rockets.12 These rocketsare the primary means for Misty 11 to mark the targ...

Full Text Search Details
...udes about every kind of combustion from candles and home fireplaces to carsand rockets. It‘s a deadly poison, which is why people often commit suicid... ...get rid of it that way.It‘s certainly not practical to send one or two thousand rocket ships full of carbon into space everyday. We had better find a ... ...ddition to her sorting out the glass and putting it inpublic bins and returning bottles and cans to the market to get her deposit back. And the deposi... ...he market to get her deposit back. And the depositwas substantial. A large Coke bottle brought 35 cents and a small bottle or can was 17 cents. Thedep... ...their beloved ‗nature‘ made it mandatory. But also it was so easy to return the bottles and cansin a user friendly machine that took your bottles and ...

Full Text Search Details
...n, but we did not think anyone would try to invadeagain. That was a bit later, we wanted the rockets and stuff because we were still worried about ... ...ound groups of bodies some distance from a half-buried encampment alongside a slowly sinking rocket ship. Everything was preserved in the drysand, but... ...ked in a stable bond with other volatile gasescompressed into a liquid, and it was a perfect rocket fuel. Compressed further it became a verypowerful ... ... someone using that name." "The face of the woman that appeared on the Vidicon after that rocket attack,” said Packet,"was the same as the woman wh... ...here. Out.” As they all got up and moved to the lower door, Raftos bent down and pulled a bottle fromthe open locker. "No you don't,” said Harri... ...ck, he did not know the message had not gotthrough. When Bainbridge fired the first round of rockets which were deflected by the shields of theTexion,... ...aid Raftos. "The only way we are going to get through this is drunk.” Hepulled another large bottle of the special Carsvalura out the locker and opene...