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219 “somewhat cherubic” and “as disarmingly pleasant”: Taubman, Secret Empire , p. 88.

Squirrel Hill: Harris, A New Command , p. 147.

“Hang on tight, and I will support you”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 165.

seriously considering quitting the army: Ibid., p. 168.

220 “So far as the public could judge”: Ibid., p. 166.

“The time for talking”: Ibid., p. 169.

“The real tragedy of Sputnik’s victory”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun , p. 132.

“could be very damaging to what the President was trying to do”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 169.

a devastating report: Prados, The Soviet Estimate , p. 72.

221 “deeply shocking”: Sherman Adams, First Hand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961), p. 413.

221 “Its disclosure would be inimical”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace , p. 221.

“It will be interesting to find out how long”: Ibid.

“The still top-secret Gaither Report”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower , p. 98.

222 “Arguing the Case for Being Panicky”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth , p. 150.

“Another tranquility pill”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge , p. 47.

“It was by no means a blood, sweat and toil speech”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks , p. 34.

“Two Sputniks cannot sway Eisenhower”: Ibid, pp. 45-46.

sinking by 22 percentage points: Dickson, Sputnik , p. 151.

“In a matter of a few months”: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth , p. 156.

“The bill’s best bet”: Ibid., p. 161.

“Eisenhower was skeptical about the loans”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower , p. 195.

223 A new $ 100-million-a-year Astronautical Research and Development Agency: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race , p. 112.

“I’d like to know what’s on the other side of the moon”: Ambrose, Eisenhower , p. 453.

“a depression that will curl your hair”: Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency , p. 121.

Unemployment was expected to jump by as much as 1.5 million: Eisenhower, Waging Peace , p. 213.

224 “In effect there was no clear cut authority”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 167.

“They are trying to delude Congress”: Harris, A New Command , p. 183.

“Either give me a clear-cut order”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun , p. 134.

“I’m afraid my language”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 168.

“a fierce religious zeal” and a “pious belligerence”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower , p. 127.

225 “Vanguard will never make it”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 155.

“all test firings of Vanguard have met with success”: Ibid., p. 166.

stop sending him “garbage”: Kurt Stehling, Project Vanguard (New York: Doubleday, 1961), p. 119.

“almost developed”: Ibid., p. 60.

“For all practical purposes the Vanguard vehicle was new”: Constance McLaughlin Green and Milton Lomask, Vanguard: A History (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1970), p. 177.

226 “It was either forgotten, or not understood”: Stehling, Project Vanguard , p. 60.

simultaneously drew paychecks from the aerospace companies: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun , p. 240.

assertions from the Glenn L. Martin Company: Green and Lomask, Vanguard , pp. 54, 62.

Vanguard’s budget: Ibid., pp. 62, 105, 131.

“I question very much whether it would have been authorized”: Percival Brundage, April 30, 1957, Project Vanguard memorandum to the president, Bureau of Budget files, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/iik4.html.

227 “piece by rotten piece”: Stehling, Project Vanguard , p. 119.

227 There were moisture problems, poorly located pressure indicator lines, unsoldered wire connections, corroded and leaky fittings: Ibid., pp. 109-11.

“What! You want to put a ball in that rocket?”: Ibid., pp. 87-88.

“We’re never going to make it”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 131.

228 “an unaccepted, incompletely developed vehicle”: Ibid., p. 177.

“An astonishing piece of stupidity”: Time , October 21, 1957.

the Stewart Committee had been “prejudiced”: Stehling, Project Vanguard , p. 60.

229 “the funds estimated by Secretary Quarles were totally inadequate”: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks , p. 21.

Wilson interviewed by Mike Wallace: Ibid., p. 47.

“Implicit in all the criticism”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 457.

a crack team of Wall Street lawyers: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 1022.

230 “He never asked the head of my organization”: Eilene Galloway, NASA Oral History transcript, at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/GallowayE/EG_8-7-00.pdf.

“He was really like a dynamo”: Ibid.

“The timing was perfect”: Legislative Origins of the National Aeronautics and Space Act: Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop Conducted April 3, 1992 , Monographs in Space History no. 8, http://www.history.nasa.gov/40than/legislat.pdf.

“Crisis had become normalcy”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 226.

“His aides who sometimes caught him with a faraway look”: Mosley, Dulles, p. 439.

Gallup polls had shown that most American voters did not mind Ike’s frequent weekday golf outings: Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency, p. 40.

231 “Oh little Sputnik, flying high”: Roger D. Launius, Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age, monograph at http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html. “As I picked up a pen”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 227.

“You may be President in twenty-four hours”: Nixon, RN, p. 184.

232 “The Vanguard tower was clear against a starry sky”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 206.

“Bird Watch Hill”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 122.

233 filled the airwaves with all manner of facts: Ibid.

Though missiles had been tested at the complex since the summer of 1950: http://www.patrick.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=4514&page=1.

“The rocket looked unkempt”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 21.

234 the most ambitious and expensive installment of his “Man in Space” series: Introduction by Leonard Maltin to Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond, commemorative DVD package, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Burbank, Calif., 2004, originally aired December 4, 1957.

235 Wolfsschanze: This account of the July 1943 meeting is drawn from Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich, p. 192.

and film that had been shot using several cameras simultaneously: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 33.

236 “seemed a pretty dowdy type”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 27.

somewhat more reluctant decision in 1940: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 41.

237 “But what I want is annihilation”: Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich, p. 192.

“The Führer was amazed at von Braun’s youth”: Ibid., p. 278.

238 Porter was instrumental in scuttling: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 240.

239 “Ten, nine, eight…”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, pp. 208-9.

“Oh God! No! Look out! Duck!”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 24.