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,