mid-air and part of one of the sides flew right at me luckily however the rocket decided to spare me. after that we had orders to address the rocket using the formal you. perhaps a rocket is like a woman to whom you ve yet to be introduced or. if you need to address or with the formal you. in this sense the rock it demands far more adulation and devotion than the most beautiful of women. we learned to address her properly as. the real power behind the project was chief constructors sergey carli of the soviet counterpart different from brown. carly off was respected in feared by everyone baikonur the sooner the r seven rocket worked the better were his chances of winning the space race. but he knew the americans were in the running to. a u.s. newsreel in july one thousand nine hundred fifty seven showed how the first u.s.
decide the future of u.s. space flight and vienna from brown s career. four months after sputnik a converted redstone rocket was launched. one drone was triumphant. all of huntsville turned out to underfund brown and his two daughters. the reaction of. why. people come out of the house hollered you know. i think there was generally speaking there was some relief that well we want to be. a native german fan or from brown became a national hero as a rocket man in the u.s. . the media celebrated his success brown was everywhere.
they would take the top prize. german american vendor from brown in particular could always drum up public support for spaceflight in the mid fifty s a daring visionary and clever pragmatist he spoke on television of flying to the stars meanwhile he was still occupied only with building nuclear missiles for the army if he wanted to take things further he had to win his employers over to the idea of conquering space to convince them he described space stations as potential platforms for launching nuclear weapons here is very good looking he was very persuasive he words very attentive to audiences so you know he knew what people wanted to hear and he would be your you shape the word what he said to make the audience interested in it so he just seems sure how this natural ability you have it accrues most. fund wrong wanted to get into space he didn t care who paid for it
a pioneering achievement perhaps he was hoping to revive his own opportunity. a bit of an open brown had warned people in the summer of one nine hundred fifty seven that the soviets were on the verge of doing it 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 they in the summer brown confused there when they gave out the the the frequencies for the first satellite and one brown warned people this is coming is coming they re going to beat us. carly off was planning to space sensation in secret seven rocket was scheduled to carry this but make satellite into space on october sixth. a short time before that at the end of september the us suddenly started testing the global flight control system for its vanguard satellite it wasn t supposed to be launched until nine hundred fifty eight. carli off was alarmed he pressured his
do all of the info to come and there s all this a little weather cut i know told no it will look to coat it go if you can do this. cowardly offer was even more determined than any other soviet to penetrate space he pushed for even more speed. judge judy what he had asked of course he wanted to be first he knew that everyone remembered columbus but the second man to set foot in america was already long forgotten it s the same way with space he knew that if i shoot the thing up into space then the name of sergei pop locus correctly off will remain in the history books forever. work was intensifying in earnest in september one nine hundred fifty seven there were a number of newspaper reports and rumors that the soviets were preparing to launch a satellite but officials in the us remained relaxed even when venner from brown was warning about the psychological effects of such