And 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, "Challeng

And 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.