Matthew Brzezinski - Red Moon Rising

240 “What happened yesterday has made us…” and all other quotes from NSC meeting no. 347: http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/Sputnik/nasasearchreport.pdf, see NSC series, box 9, Ann Whitman File.

where polls conducted in Britain and France prior to Sputnik’s launch had shown that only 6 percent: McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth, p. 240.

241 “Why doesn’t somebody go out there, find it, and kill it”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 117.

“Oh, what a Flopnik”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 158.

Kaputnik, Splatnik, Stallnik: Time, December 16, 1957.

“This incident has no bearing on our programs”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 72.

242 Sputnik Cocktails: Witkin, ed., The Challenge of the Sputniks, p. 4.

“our worst humiliation since Custer’s last stand”: Time, December 16, 1957.

Already, the Glenn L. Martin Company: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 210.

“This program has had unprecedented publicity”: Time, December 16, 1957.

“It lies with the President”: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 117.

“How long, how long oh God”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 173.

95 percent of his speech and motor skills: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 229.

“There were open and widespread suggestions that the President resign”: Time, December 9, 1957.

“It is the whole free world that is sick in bed with Ike”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 59.

243 “In my mind was the question”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, pp. 230-31.

The move would inspire a running joke: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 144.

“This man is not what he was”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 234.

245 The Chief Designer was diagnosed with arrhythmia, coupled with “over-fatigue”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 175.

a region-wide search for Tsander’s grave: Ibid.

246 tales of the mixed-breed terrier Laika: Harford, Korolev, p. 132.

astonishingly detailed descriptions of the devices: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 207.

“Tell me, Sergei Pavlovich”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, p. 82.

247 “to deliver the Soviet Coat of Arms to the Moon”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 179.

“Korolev works for TASS”: Harford, Korolev, p. 116.

“Before you begin your questioning”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 178.

248 “The chief reason”: Philip Nash, The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1951-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), p. 20.

248 “was being authorized to proceed on a ‘top-priority’ basis”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 1025.

“With feelings much different from those”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 190.

249 “Proposal for a National Integrated Missile and Space Vehicle Development Program”: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 262.

“like a yo-yo”: NASA Oral History series, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Ballistic/SchrieverBA/schrieverba.pdf.

“Sputnik woke us up”: Ibid.

“So I also closed the door”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 188.

tried to covertly buy the Itek Corporation: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 229.

In the summer of 1957, Bissell, Edwin Land, and Jim Killian: Ibid., p. 230.

250 “Our first goal was to put the genie back in the bottle”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 135.

“I had to invent an elaborate cover explanation”: Ibid., p. 136.

251 “Some awful needles were stuck into this thing”: 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.

“We will be walking a very tight wire with our lives”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 226.

252 “There are too many people in government who have the right to say no”: Harris, A New Command , p. 191.

“At the Pentagon they shudder when they speak of the ‘gap’”: Prados, The Soviet Estimate, p. 80.

“a leaky ship, with a committee on the bridge”: Divine, The Sputnik Challenge, p. 118.

“Speaking so fast”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 1023.

“Control of space means control of the world”: Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 145.

253 “Light a match behind Lyndon and he’ll orbit”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 1025.

“I’m not going to ask you about the precise date”: Green and Lomask, Vanguard, p. 214.

“Do not admit to the presence of the vehicle”: Harris, A New Command, p. 184.

“I desire it well understood”: Bille and Lishock, The First Space Race, p. 127.

“Personal observation had convinced me”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 193.

254 It consisted of four stages: http://www.history.msfc.nasa.gov/milestones/chpt4.pdf.

extending the Redstone’s burning time from 121 to 155 seconds: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/index.html.

“Ship it to Florida, it will do the job”: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 275.

255 “It became quite obvious that every effort”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 196.

“We bootlegged the whole job”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 169.

“thought it would be wise to prepare it in such a way”: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, pp. 134-35.

256 “Almost every reference to Army-developed hardware was stricken”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 196.

256 “This is our biggest challenge”: Ibid., p. 188.

257 “just about as thoroughly bored”: Nash, The Other Missiles of October , p. 35.

“The symbols of 1957 were two pale, clear streaks of light”: Time , January 6, 1958.

“make some specific arrangements”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace , p. 223.

“I decided to confine the annual message”: Ibid., p. 240.

258 “We could see the Army preparations on their launch pad”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 159.

259 “The night was miserable cold and wet”: Ibid., p. 163.

“Our people did not take kindly to the idea of sitting”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 200.

260 “Above our meeting in the hangar hovered a ghostly”: Stehling, Project Vanguard, p. 175.

261 “an ardent Nazi” who had “denounced his colleagues to the Gestapo”: Cadbury, Space Race, p. 12.

polysulfide aluminum and ammonium perchlorate: http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/expinfo.html.

262 apex predictor: Stuhlinger and Ordway, Wernher von Braun, p. 136.

“Do you really want to rely on this alone?”: Ibid., p. 137.

winds… reaching 225 miles per hour: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team , p. 263.

263 “What’s happened? What are you going to do?”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision , p. 207.

264 “Highly marginal. We do not recommend that you try it”: Ibid., p. 209.

winds… still gusted at 157 miles per hour: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 276.

“Everyone was going on sheer nerve”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 210.

a twenty-four-year-old first lieutenant by the name of John Meisenheimer: Harris, A New Command, p. 187.

“Every man on the crew was conscious that the hopes of a Nation”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 212.