Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/48 - Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach, Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, relating to the Soviet development of rocket technology, [1932]-1957; the Soviet operational use of Katyusha bombardment rockets, Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; the capture by the Red Army of German rocket scientists, 1945; the German development of the V2 bombardment rocket, 1942-1945; the Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') ICBM, 1957; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957.