Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite / Edition 1

Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
9057026236
ISBN-13:
9789057026232
Pub. Date:
10/31/2000
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
9057026236
ISBN-13:
9789057026232
Pub. Date:
10/31/2000
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite / Edition 1

Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite / Edition 1

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789057026232
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/31/2000
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine , #11
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Robert W. Smith, Roger D. Lanius, John M. Logsdon

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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