Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet SatellitePsychology Press, 2000 - 442 páginas This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century. |
Contenido
Part 1Space Flight in the Soviet Union | 3 |
Korolev Sputnik and the International Geophysical | 43 |
Sputniks 1 2 and 3 | 73 |
Sputnik and the Creation of the Soviet Space Industry | 95 |
1 | 99 |
Robert W Smith | 119 |
Early American | 161 |
National Security and the Formation | 197 |
Logsdon | 261 |
Western European | 289 |
Organizing the U S Government for Outer Space | 309 |
Sputnik American Higher | 327 |
1 | 346 |
A Political Symbol Tool in 1960 Campaign | 363 |
Sputnik and Technological Surprise | 401 |
List of Contributors | 425 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite Roger D. Lanius,John M. Logsdon,Robert W. Smith Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite Roger D. Lanius,John M. Logsdon,Robert W. Smith Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite Roger D. Lanius,John M. Logsdon,Robert W. Smith Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
Términos y frases comunes
Academy agency Air Force American Army artificial satellite Astronautics August ballistic missile basic research capability Chelomei chief designers civilian Cold War Congress cooperation CSAGI decision Democrats design bureau Earth satellite Eisenhower administration Eisenhower's engineers exploration federal freedom of space funding Glushko Goodpaster higher education Ibid ICBM IGY committee IGY satellite intelligence International Geophysical issue January July Kennedy Khrushchev Korolev launch a satellite leadership McDougall meeting military missile gap missile programs Moscow NASA National Security Council November nuclear October Office orbit outer space overflight peaceful political President Press prestige proposal Quarles reconnaissance satellite Republican research universities Russian S. P. Korolev scientific satellite program scientists Senate September Sergey Korolev Soviet satellite Soviet space Soviet space program Soviet Union space flight space industry Space Policy space program Stewart Committee strategy U.S. National Committee United USSR Vanguard Washington weapons Wernher von Braun
Referencias a este libro
The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity David Darling Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity David Darling Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |