Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

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Psychology 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.
 

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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

New Light
231

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