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At least show some respect by spelling the man's name correctly. s/Korlev/Korolev/
by maxaf 11y ago
At least show some respect by spelling the man's name correctly. s/Korlev/Korolev/
- andreif 11y agoIt's been corrected in the article, so maybe someone can fix it here as well
- avmich 11y agoAnd of course the phonetic transliteration would be Korolyov, not Korolev. ё instead of е in the middle. Asif Siddiqi has a good book on the subject, "Challenge to Apollo". I'd also recomment Boris Chertok's memoirs, "Rockets and People Volume IV: The Moon Race". You'd learn, for example, how many launches of N-1 were originally planned for each expedition to the Moon and how that number eventually boiled down to 1.