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Politicians were to. the ideological department of the central committee of the party was driving us like the dickens to. not just curly off got to know. car you off knew of course that his space flight plans didn't top the list of soviet priorities any dreams of getting into space would remain fantasies until the r seven rocket worked properly. the breakthrough came on august twenty first one nine hundred fifty seven it was the first successful launch of the missile. there before that so clearly off went to khrushchev and was able to announce that the soviet union had a rocket that was capabl...

More and more military personnel came into the closed region. keeping it all very hush hush was the rule. in the kremlin soviet leader nikita khrushchev and his nuclear weapon strategists were putting their hopes in a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile the r seven. as you know it was the also of his job to carry a free point five ton nuclear warhead across a range of at least eight thousand kilometers. the task force and to build a rocket to transport something into space. the specific aim was to get a nuclear warhead from point a to point b. with a point in the soviet union and po...

Team for speed and pulled the launch date forward by two days. ago was the ultimate consulting with its minister corral you off independently you made the decision to not the rocket and sputnik without a decision from the police bureau or khrushchev sanction to all that showed he was ready to take an enormous risk here. there was no official party decision saying we're putting a spotlight satellite into space on october fourth two that was really something because normally in the soviet union there was the saying have a russian doesn't even go to the toilet without getting an order first clue....

. deadlines were really very short today no one would be able to accomplish anything in such a short time. but because of the ongoing competition with the americans and the enthusiasm with which we worked it was possible back then it was working. as the rocket was taken along the one point five kilometer route to the launch pad to chief constructor carli off walked alongside and. the final launch preparations were made on the morning of october fourth as the final countdown to the statistical probabilities of success were determined to be relatively small until that time only one r seven rocke...

A satellite but officials in the us remained relaxed even when venner from brown was warning about the psychological effects of such a pioneering achievement perhaps he was hoping to revive his own opportunity. a bit of an old open brown had warned people in the summer of one nine hundred fifty seven that the soviets were in the region and he was not alone or a number of experts in the missile business in the united states who watched what the soviets were saying and they said in the summer bunker for tuesday when they gave out the the the frequencies for the first satellite and one brown warn...