I 4 volumi di Rockets and People, le memorie del vice del “Chief Designer” Sergey Korolev Boris Chertok, curati da Asif Siddiqi e pubblicati nella NASA History Series, sono disponibili a 2,35$ ciascuno in edizione Kindle:
I colori usati per alcune porzioni minori di testo abbassano il contrasto e lo rendono poco leggibile sui dispositivi Kindle. Manca la TOC logica ma è presente quella HTML. Nonostante questi problemi minori, gli ebook sono ben formattati e includono tutte le illustrazioni delle edizioni stampate.
Gli autori fanno anche qualche ipotesi sulla natura delle trasmissioni ricevute dai Fratelli Judica Cordiglia (cercate nella sezione complottismo per informazioni - fino alla nausea - a riguardo)
Discussing new ideas with Bykov [he] told me about his ideas for the experimental development and testing of a radio intercom link. Losyakov, who managed the department of radio receivers at NII-695, proposed testing communications reliability using the relay method.To do this he developed an on-board receiver that was supposed to receive transmissions from conventional broadcast radios and then relay them through the future cosmonaut’s standard on-board radio telephone transmitter. At that time I doubted the advisability of that idea, from the standpoint that the radio ranges of broadcast stations were not designed to penetrate into space. But Bykov convinced me with a simple argument: the experiment was cheap—what will be, will be.
This experiment was placed on one of the unmanned Korabl-Sputniks. Voice reception on the ground after relay was unintelligible. Music was distorted by noise and loss of reception to the point that popular songs were completely unrecognizable. This experiment was probably the reason why Italian ham radio operators reported in 1960 that they had picked up transmissions of rambling speech, groans, and wailing from space.
