[history] Passing of Boris Chertok

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/chertok_obit.html
Russian rocket designer Boris Yevseyevich Chertok,
one of the founding fathers of the Russian space program,
passed away on Dec.14 at the age of 99.
---
Russian rocket designer Boris Yevseyevich Chertok
Image Credit: NASA
---

I received an e-mail from Steve Garber for the NASA History Program Office about the death of Boris Chertok.
He provided some information about his four volume memoir, "Rockets and People" and its availability on-line.
A check of Amazon . com showed that even used books are quite pricy so maybe you won't mind reading a PDF version before buying.
http://www.amazon.com/Rockets-People-V-Boris-Chertok/dp/0160732395

On NASA Technical Reports Server the whole volume 1 can be down loaded but you might want it in three parts as listed by Steve Garber.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050010181_2005010059.pdf (3.4 MB PDF)
- LRK -

--------------------------------------------

Readers:

        With great sadness, our office announces the recent death of Boris Chertok, a towering figure in Soviet and Russian space history.  Chertok’s four-volume memoir, Rockets and People, has received wide acclaim.  The first three volumes of this series, edited by Dr. Asif Siddiqi, are available electronically from the links below and hard copies may be obtained through http://history.nasa.gov/series95.html#order online.  The fourth and final volume, subtitled The Moon Race, will be published early next year.  For more information on Chertok’s tremendous life story, see http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/chertok_obit.html online. In sympathy,

        Steve Garber

 

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-1.pdf

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-2.pdf

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-3.pdf

 

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol2.pdf

 

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol3.pdf

 

Stephen Garber
NASA History Program Office

Mail Suite CO72, Room 5N11
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
202-358-2866 fax
http://history.nasa.gov

-------------------------------------------
history mailing list
history@lists.hq.nasa.gov
https://lists.hq.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/history
--------------------------------------------

There are a lot of books available on line or that can be ordered from NASA.
- LRK -

--------------------------------------------
http://history.nasa.gov/series95.html

Management Histories, (SP-4100 Series):

• Rosholt, Robert L. An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963. NASA SP-4101, 1966. Out of print.
• Levine, Arnold S. Managing NASA in the Apollo Era. NASA SP-4102,1982. Out of print.
• Roland, Alex. Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,1915-1958. NASA SP-4103, 1985.
• Fries, Sylvia D. NASA Engineers and the Age of Apollo. NASA SP-4104,1992. Out of print.
• Glennan, T. Keith. The Birth of NASA: The Diary of T. Keith Glennan. Edited by J.D. Hunley. NASA SP-4105, 1993.
• Seamans, Robert C. Aiming at Targets: The Autobiography of Robert C. Seamans. NASA SP-4106, 1996.
• Garber, Stephen J., editor. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of Human Spaceflight Symposium. NASA SP-2002-4107.
• Mallick, Donald L. with Peter W. Merlin. The Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey. NASA SP-4108. Out of print.
• Iliff, Kenneth W. and Curtis L. Peebles. From Runway to Orbit: Reflections of a NASA Engineer. NASA SP-2004-4109.
• Chertok, Boris. Rockets and People, Volume 1. (NASA SP-2005-4110).
  Click below to view this book in a three part PDF:
  Part 1.
  Part 2.
  Part 3.
• Chertok, Boris. Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry, Volume II. (NASA SP-2006-4110).
• Chertok, Boris. Rockets and People: Hot Days of the Cold War, Volume III.(NASA SP-2009-4110).
• Laufer, Alexander, Post, Todd, and Hoffman, Edward. Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects (NASA SP-2005-4111).
• Dawson, Virginia P. and Bowles, Mark D. Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003. (NASA SP-2005-4112).
• Mudgway, Douglas J. William H. Pickering: America's Deep Space Pioneer.(NASA SP-2008-4113).
  Click below to view this book in a three part PDF:
  Part 1.
  Part 2.
  Part 3.

--------------------------------------------

Much to learn from those that have gone on before.
We stand on their shoulders as we reach for the stars.
- LRK -

Thanks for looking up with me.

- LRK -

Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ 

BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ 

WordPress: http://lrkellogg.wordpress.com/ 

Newsletter: https://mailman1.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update

===========================================

WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK 

===========================================