War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986

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Title:
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986
Description:
Boris Rauschenbach was a Soviet physicist and engineer who developed space vehicle control systems in the 1950s and 1960s. In the interview, he dates the beginnings of Soviet rocket technology to the pre-revolutionary period, then discusses developments through World War II and the influence of German rocket scientists after the war. Comparing differing American and Russian approaches to rocketry, he points to the latter's reliance on automation and the former's dependence on human operation of equipment. He then recalls the Sputnik launch. Asked about the Soviets' choice of liquid versus solid fuel, he asserts that his Soviet colleagues developed ways to roughly equalize launch times. Assessing the space competition between the two countries in the 1960s, he declares that the Apollo program was designed to exact "revenge" on the USSR for its previous "defeat[s]," and had no scientific value.
Author:
Raushenbakh, Boris Viktorovich
Date:
April 10, 1986
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
WGBH > War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Subjects:
Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1907-1966
Project Apollo (U.S.)
World War II
United States
Soviet Union
Nuclear weapons
Edicia Sputnik
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Glushko, Valentin Petrovich
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Extent:
00:00:00
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k93125qj3f
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation