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Mike Gruntman From Astronautics to Cosmonautics ISBN-10:  1-4196-7085-5 ISBN-13:  978-1-4196-7085-5 84 pages with 24 photos Bibliography: 75 references     This book on Amazon.com Amazon's SEARCH INSIDE THE BOOK   Book preview

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Books on history of rocketry and space

Mike Gruntman
From Astronautics to Cosmonautics, 2007

Preface

Chapter 1. Astronautics Was the First

Chapter 2. Dreams about Space and Communism

Chapter 3. REP-Hirsch Encouragement Award

Chapter 4. Cosmonautics

Chapter 5. Socialism Bites Back

Chapter 6. In the Spotlight

Chapter 7. In His Adopted Homeland

Appendix. Bibliography

Index - this web site

Index

A

A-4 ballistic missile 12
Académie des Sciences. See French Academy of Sciences
Academy of Sciences, USSR 40, 54, 55, 57, 63br> Across the Zodiac 2
Ada, sister of Ary J. Sternfeld 45, 55
American Interplanetary Society 13
American Rocket Society 13, 26
Ananoff, Alexandre 13, 23, 54
anti-Semitism 28, 39, 44, 45, 46, 48
archives of Ary J. Sternfeld 59
archives, President of the USSR (Russia) 42
Astronaut 2
astronaut vii, 1, 2, 9, 35
astronautical velocities 33
astronautical velocity. See cosmic velocities
astronautics vii, 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 29, 32, 33, 35
Astronautics, American Interplanetary Society 13
Astronautics, American Rocket Society 26
astronautique 5, 21, 29. See also astronautics
Astronomical Council, USSR Academy of Sciences 54
author of this book 32, 43, 60

B

Baikonur 62
Baillaud, Jules 7
Barré, Jean Jacques 54
Belot, Émile 5, 7
Berman-Sternfeld, Elvira viii
Bethenod, Joseph 5, 7
Bing, André 7
Boex, Joseph Henri Honoré 9
Boex, Séraphim Justin François 9
Bolshevo 47
Brezhnev, Leonid I. 34
Brun, Edmond A. 54
Bykovsky, Valerii F. 35

C

Central Committee, Communist Party, Soviet Union 35, 47, 48
characteristic spaceflight velocities 23. See also cosmic velocities
Charbonnier 7
Chernyshev, Nikolai G. 47, 48
Chkalov Central Aero Club 33
Chrétien, Henri 5, 7
Columbus 11
Committee on Astronautics 5, 7, 25
communism 15, 16, 18, 19, 59
Communist Party, USSR 33, 39, 45
Comptes rendus 23
concentration camp 18
cosmic velocities 21, 22, 23, 32, 33
cosmic velocity, first 32
cosmonaut vii, 35, 36
cosmonautics vii, 5, 10, 15, 21, 26, 29, 32, 33, 35, 37, 39, 60
Cosmonautics Day 34, 35, 36
cosmonautique 5, 21, 26, 29. See also cosmonautics
crater, Lunar 62

D

Day of Cosmonautics. See Cosmonautics Day
Deslandres, Henri-Alexandre 7
Doklady (Reports), Academy of Sciences, USSR 45
Donetsk 44

E

Efimov, P.I. 35
Egorov, Nikolai P. 61
Eisenhower , Dwight D. 51
emigration to the Soviet Union 19, 27
Energomash, NPO viii, 55, 57
Erlich, Gustava 16, 17, 21
Esclangon, Ernest 5, 7, 25
Esclangon, Felix 23
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert vii, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 47

F

Fabry, Charles 5
Ferrié, Gustave 4, 5, 7
Fichot, Eugène 5, 6, 7
first cosmic velocity. See cosmic velocities
Franka, sister of Ary Sternfeld 16
French Academy of Sciences 1, 23, 24, 25
French Astronautical Society 54
French Astronomical Society 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 24, 25, 47
French Communist Party 16, 19
French Physical Society 2, 4

G

Gagarin, Yurii A. 35, 36, 54
Galabert Prize 54
Gas Dynamical Laboratory (GDL) 42, 47
Gaumont, Léon 7
Georgadze, Mikhail P. 34
Glenn, John 54
Glushko, Valentin P. 27, 38, 39, 55, 57, 60
Goddard, Robert H. 11, 13, 17
Golikov, F.I. 35
Gonor, Lev R. 46
Gorbachev, Mikhail S. 58
Great Soviet Encyclopedia 55
Greg, Percy 2
Grigoryan, Gurgen G. viii, 60
Gröttrup, Helmut 39
Gruntman, Mike. See author of this book
Gurevich, Mikhail I. 48
Gustava, wife of Ary J. Sternfeld. See Erlich, Gustava

H

Hiller, Ch. 21, 22
Hirsch, André 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 23, 25, 47
Hohmann, Walter 17
honoris causa doctor degree 54
Humanité 17, 18. See also L’Humanité

I

Initiation à la Cosmonautique 21, 29. See also Introduction to Cosmonautics
International Astronautical Congress 13, 23, 54
International Astronautical Federation 13, 54
Introduction to Cosmonautics 15, 21, 22, 26, 29, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 47

J

Jagiellonian University 15
Jet Propulsion Scientific Research Institute, RNII 27, 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 47, 55
Journal de Physique 3, 11
Jupiter 11

K

Kaganovich, Lazar' M. 43
Kalecki, Michal 45. See also Ada, sister of Ary
Kamanin, Nikolai P. 35
Keldysh, Mstislav V. 55
Khimki 55
Khrushchev, Nikita S. 35
Kibal’chich, Nikolai I. 47
Kiriat Ekron, Israel 62
Kleimenov, Ivan T. 38, 42, 43
Korolev, Sergei P. 27, 38, 43, 46
kosmonavt 57
kosmonavtika vii, 57. See also cosmonautics
Krakow 15

L

La (Lavochkin) fighter planes 48
Lambert, A. 7
Langemak, Georgii E. 29, 38, 39, 42, 43
Langevin, Paul 23
L’Astronautique 8, 12
Lavochkin, Sergei A. 48
Leibenson, Leonid S. 45
L’Humanité. See Humanité. 
Lodz 15, 16, 21
Lorin, René 17
Louis-Hirsch, André. See Hirsch, André
Lubeck, fortress of 13

M

Manned Spaceflight Control Center 47
Mars vii, 3, 9, 11
Masevich, Alla G. 54
Maurain, Charles 5, 7
MiG (Mikoyan-Gurevich) airplanes 48
Mileberger, Michel 62
Ministry of Heavy Industry, USSR 19
Molotov, Vaycheslav M. 43, 44
Moon vii, 3, 29, 35, 62
Morozova, Stella G. viii
Moscow 18, 19, 21, 46, 47

N

Nancy, University of 15, 54
Narovlyanskii, Naum S. 62, 63
Nauka, publishing house 57
Nazarov, German 55
Nelyubov, Grigorii G. 35
New Horizons, mission to Pluto 63, 64
New York Times 12
NII-4, Scientific Research Institute N.4 47
NII-88, Scientific Research Institute N.88 46, 47
Nikolaev, Andrian G. 35
Nobel Prize 5
Novodevichiye Cemetery 56, 58

O

Oberth, Hermann 10, 11, 17, 23, 24

P

Paris 15, 17, 18, 23
patronymic 28
Peenemünde 12
Perel’man, Yakov I. 32, 33
Perrin, Jean Baptiste 5, 7, 23, 25
persecution 18
pilot-cosmonaut 36
Pluto 63
Pobedonostsev, Yurii A. 38
Podlipki 46
Polish Communist Party 16
Polish Section, French Communist Party 16
Politburo, Communist Party, USSR 42, 43, 44
Polytechnic Museum, Moscow viii, 59, 60, 62
Popovich, Pavel R. 35
Poskrebyshev, Alexander 44
Pravda 33, 34, 45
Presidium, Supreme Soviet, USSR 34, 35, 36. See also Supreme Soviet, USSR
Prix REP-Hirsch 10. See also REP-Hirsch Award
Prokhorov, Aleksandr M. 55
Pskov 61
Pytalovo 61

R

ramjet 17
REP 1.     See also Esnault-Pelterie, Robert
REP-Hirsch Award 6, 7, 10, 12, 23, 25, 29, 47
REP-Hirsch Encouragement Award 10, 21, 25, 27, 32, 40, 47
Riedel, Klaus 39
RNII 39, 42. See also Jet Propulsion Scientific Research Institute, RNII
robot, designed by Ary Sternfeld 18, 19
rockets 1
Rolin, L. 17
rootless cosmopolitans 45
Rosny, J.H., aînée 9. See also Boex, Joseph Henri Honoré
Rosny, J.H., the elder 5, 6, 7, 9, 10. See also Rosny, J.H., aînée
Rytov, A.G. 35

S

Shternfeld, Maya A. viii, 41, 44, 59
Shternfel’d Museum of Cosmonautics, Pytalovo 61
sideration 5
Sieradz 15, 28
social engineering 18
socialism 18, 19, 27, 37, 38, 39, 43, 59
Société astronomique de France 4. See also French Astronomical Society
Societé française de Physique 2. See also French Physical Society
Sorbonne University 4, 15, 16
Soreau, Rodolphe 5, 7
spiski, Stalin’s 43
Sputnik 33, 37, 51, 52
Stalin, Iosif (Joseph) 40, 41, 43, 44, 46
Stalino 44
Stalin’s spiski 43. See also spiski, Stalin’s
Sternfeld, Elvira A. 59, 62
Sternfeld transfer 21, 22, 24, 56, 58
Supreme Soviet, USSR 18
Suslov, Mikhail A. 48

T

Tikhonravov, Mikhail K. 27, 38
Titov, German S. 35
Tsander, Fridrikh A. 27
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin E. 17, 18, 33, 40, 47, 48, 49
TsNIIMash 47
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail 27, 37
Tunguska event of 1908 48

U

U.S. Senate 18
University of Nancy. See Nancy, University of
Urbain, Georges 7

V

V-2 ballistic missile 12
Valier, Max 11
Venus 3, 9, 11
Verne, Jules 1, 11
Vershinin, Konstantin A. 35, 36
von Braun, Wernher 12, 39
von Hoefft, Franz 11
Voroshilov, Kliment E. 43
Vvedenie v Kosmonavtiku. See Introduction to Cosmonautics

W

World War I 4
World War II 10, 13, 44, 45, 48

Y

Yangel’, Mikhail K. 47

Z

Zhdanov, Andrei A. 43
Zhemchuzhina, Paulina 44
zvezdolet (starship) 33
zvezdoplavanie 32, 33

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