Rockets and People - Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War by Boris Chertok

Author:Boris Chertok [Chertok, Boris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Scientists, Engineering & Transportation, Engineering, Aerospace, Astronautics & Space Flight, History, Europe, Russia, Aeronautical Engineering, Humanities, Science & Math, Astronomy & Space Science, Aeronautics & Astronautics, vl-nfspace
ISBN: 9780160817335
Amazon: 0160817331
Publisher: Scientific and Technical Information Off
Published: 2010-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

27. This is a reference to the time of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) in the late 1980s, the polices of new Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to an unprecedented but brief era of liberalism in the Soviet Union culminating in the eventual collapse of the old order in 1991.

28. Kosmos-10 was launched on 17 October 1962.

29. These launches were Kosmos-13 (on 21 March), Kosmos-15 (on 22 April), Kosmos-16 (on 28 April), and Kosmos-18 (on 24 May).

30. For the first full revelations on the Zenit-2 flight-program, see Yu. M. Frumkin, “Pervyy sputnik razvedchik” [“The First Spy Satellite”], Aviatsiya i kosmonavtika [Aviation and Cosmonautics] no. 3 (1993): 41–42; V. Agapov, “Zapuski kosmicheskikh apparatov ‘Zenit-2’ ” [“Launches of the Zenit-2 Space Vehicle”], Novosti kosmonavtiki [News of Cosmonautics] no. 10 (1996): 65–77.

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