Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite
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Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite
(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 11)
Routledge, 2002, c2000
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"Transferred to digital printing 2002, by Routledge"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Walter A. McDougall Introduction: Was Sputnik Really a Saltation?
Part 1: Roger D. Launius Space Flight in the Soviet Union
Part 2: Robert W. Smith A Setting for the International Geophysical Year
Part 3: Ramifications and Reactions
Glenn P. Hastedt Epilogue: Sputnik and Technological Surprise
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