War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-k93125qj3f
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- Description
- Episode 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.
- Date
- 1986-04-10
- Date
- 1986-04-10
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- 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
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:00:00
- Credits
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Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Writer: Raushenbakh, Boris Viktorovich
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 17a4372d65665817689a970d842d8f62549da085 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986,” 1986-04-10, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 21, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k93125qj3f.
- MLA: “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986.” 1986-04-10. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 21, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k93125qj3f>.
- APA: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Boris Rauschenbach, 1986. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k93125qj3f