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COLD WAR 28/23
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Transcript of interview with rocket designer Boris Chertok, 1996
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- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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22pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Sevseevich Chertok, relating to Soviet research into rocket technology, 1933-1957; German wartime rocket research, Nordhausen and Peenemünde, Germany, [1942-1945]; Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the serious accidents that occurred during the testing of Soviet space rockets, 1956-1962. 22pp
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