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Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite
- Title
- Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite / edited by Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon and Robert W. Smith.
- Publication
- Australia : Harwood Academic, ©2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 442 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 11
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 11.
- Subject
- Artificial satellites, Russian
- Exploration of outer space
- Ruimtevaart
- Politieke aspecten
- Outer space > Exploration > History. > Soviet Union
- Outer space > Exploration > History. > United States
- Outer space
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Outer space > Exploration > History
- Outer space > Exploration > Political aspects > Russia
- Outer space > Exploration > Political aspects > United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Was Sputnik really a saltation? / Walter A. McDougall -- Space flight in the Soviet Union / Roger D. Launius -- Rising from the cradle : Soviet perceptions of space flight before Sputnik / Peter A. Gorin -- Korolev, Sputnik, and the International Geophysical Year / Asif A. Siddiqi -- Korolev's triple play : Sputniks 1, 2 and 3 / James J. Harford -- Sputnik and the creation of the Soviet space industry / William P. Barry -- A setting for the International Geophysical Year / Robert W. Smith -- The Sputniks and the IGY / Rip Bulkeley -- Cover stories and hidden agendas : early American space and national security policy / Dwayne A. Day -- Before Sputnik : national security and the formation of U.S. outer space policy / Kenneth A. Osgood -- Orbiter, overflight, and the first satellite : new light on the Vanguard decision / Michael J. Neufeld -- Ramifications and reactions / John M. Logsdon -- The first Earth satellite : a retrospective view from the future / Sergey Khrushchev -- Building a third space power : Western European reactions to Sputnik at the dawn of the space age / John Krige -- Organizing the United States government for outer space, 1957-1958 / Eilene Galloway -- A certain future : Sputnik, American higher education, and the survival of a nation / John A. Douglass -- Sputnik : a political symbol and tool in 1960 campaign politics / Gretchen J. Van Dyke -- Epilogue. Sputnik and technological surprise / Glenn P. Hastedt.
- ISBN
- 9057026236
- 9789057026232
- OCLC
- ocm42955324
- 42955324
- SCSB-1216037
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library