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What I’d like to do here is to tell three stories that I hope are loosely connected. The first is a brief personal account of how I got interested in the history of the Soviet space programme, joining others in the West who were trying to uncover its secrets. When I began to study the Soviet space programme in the late 1970s, the names of its major architects were little known. In the second part of the essay, I explain how the names and identities of the most prominent designers behind the programme came to public attention. They include Sergei Korolev, Valentin Glushko, Mikhail Yangel, Vladimir Chelomey, and Vasily Mishin. Whilst I was not personally involved in this sleuthing - which occurred mostly in the 1960s and 1970s - the process of pulling back the curtains was very influential in my own work. Finally, in the concluding section, I build on the first two sections - the personal and the investigative aspects of sleuthing - and present some reflections on my journey into the archives in the post-Soviet period. I show how some of my work has helped to deepen our knowledge of the lives and works of men like Korolev, Glushko and Chelomey, and how my own voyage into the depths of the programme has come full circle: I have now met many veterans who worked with men like Korolev and Chelomey, giants whose very lives and works I was trying to uncover.

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