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“It isn’t alarm and it isn’t dismay; it’s more a certain complex mixture of
intense inner pain and a feeling of absolute powerlessness that you experience
while watching a crashing rocket approach the ground. Dying before your
eyes is a creation with which you have become so intertwined over a period
of several years that it sometimes seemed that this inanimate “article” had a
soul. Even now it seems to me that each lost rocket has a soul made up of the
feelings and experiences of the hundreds of creators of that “article.” Excerpt from “Rockets and People”, Volume IV:The Moon Race, byBoris Chertok |
Last updated April 5, 2023
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