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Sputnik

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982

Sputnik written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Russia (Federation) categories.

Sputnik

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Author : Heather Feldman
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2002-12-15

Sputnik written by Heather Feldman and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Describes the launch of the first space satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957.

Reconsidering Sputnik

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Author : Roger D. Lanius
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13

Reconsidering Sputnik written by Roger D. Lanius and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.

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.

The Asputnik Challenge

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Author : Robert A. Divine
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-25

The Asputnik Challenge written by Robert A. Divine and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-25 with History categories.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and magazine articles appeared with such headlines as "Are We Americans Going Soft?" In the White House, President Eisenhower seemed to do nothing, leading Kennedy in 1960 to proclaim a "missile gap" in the Soviet's favor. Rarely has public perception been so dramatically at odds with reality. In The Sputnik Challenge, Robert Divine provides a fascinating look at Eisenhower's handling of the early space race--a story of public uproar, secret U-2 flights, bungled missile tests, the first spy satellite, political maneuvering, and scientific triumph. He recreates the national hysteria over the first two Sputnik launches, illustrating the anxious handwringing that the Democrats (led by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson) aggressively played for political gain. Divine takes us to private White House meetings, showing how Eisenhower worked closely with science adviser James Killian, allowing him to take the lead in creating a civilian agency--NASA--which provided intelligent and forceful leadership for American space programs. But the President also knew from priceless intelligence from U-2 flights over the U.S.S.R. that he had little to fear from the touted missile gap, and he fought to limit the growth and multiplication of military missile programs. Eisenhower's assurance, however, rested on classified information, and he did little to instill his confidence in the public. Nor could he boast of his early support for the secret spy satellite program (which quickly replaced the U-2 plane after Gary Powers was shot down in 1960). So the public continued to worry, feeding the national movement for educational reform as well as congressional maneuvering over funding for numerous strategic projects. Eisenhower, Divine writes, possessed keen strategic vision and a sure sense of budgetary priorities, but ultimately he flunked a crucial test of leadership when he failed to reassure the frightened public that their fears were groundless. As a result, he ultimately failed in his goal to limit military spending as well--which led to a real missile gap in reverse. Incisively written and deeply researched, The Sputnik Challenge provides a briskly-paced history of the origins of NASA, the space race, and the age of the ICBM.

Sputnik Explorer I

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Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2007

Sputnik Explorer I written by Samuel Willard Crompton and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Astronautics categories.

The cold war served as the backdrop of the competition to find out which superpower - the United States or the Soviet Union - could reach outer space first. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was officially on. Featuring images, this work presents a description of the unforgettable time in modern history.

Sable And Sputnik

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Author : Robert E. F. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

Sable And Sputnik written by Robert E. F. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Soviet Union categories.

Between Sputnik And The Shuttle

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Author : Frederick C. Durant
language : en
Publisher: Univelt
Release Date : 1981

Between Sputnik And The Shuttle written by Frederick C. Durant and has been published by Univelt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Sputnik Zod Ago Po Moskv

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language : ru
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895

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Sputnik Tolmach

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Author : Adalʹbert Vikentʹevich Starchevskīĭ
language : ru
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Sputnik Tolmach written by Adalʹbert Vikentʹevich Starchevskīĭ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Hindustani language categories.

Sputnik

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Author : Paul Dickson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Sputnik written by Paul Dickson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Artificial satellites, Russian categories.

On October 4, 1957 as "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made object into space, an 84-kilogram satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. While Sputnik immediately shocked the world, its long-term impact was even greater, for it profoundly changed the shape of the twentieth Century. Washington journalist Paul Dickson chronicles the dramatic events and developments leading up to and emanating from the Sputnik's launch a story that can only now be fully told with the recent release of previously classified documents. "Sputnik" offers a fascinating profile of the early American and Soviet space programs and a strikingly revised picture of the politics and personalities behind the facade of American's fledgling efforts to get into space. Although Sputnik was unmanned, its story is intensely human. Sputnik owed its success to many people, from the earlier visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose rocket theories were ahead of their time, to the Soviet spokesmen strategically positioned around the world on the day the satellite was launched, who created one of the greatest public-relations events of all time. It s chief designer, however the brillant Sergei Korolev remained a Soviet state secret until after his death. Equally hidden from view was the political intrigue dominating America's early space program, as the military services jockeyed for control and identity in a peacetime world. For years, former Nazi Wernher von Braun, who ran the U.S. Army's missile program, lobbied for his rocket team to be handed responsibility for the first Earth-orbiting satellite. He was outraged that Sputnik beat him and America into space. President Eisenhower, though, was secretly pleased that the Russians had launched first, because by orbiting over the United States, Sputnik established the principle of freedom of space that could justify the spy satellites he thought essential to monitor Soviet missile buildup. As Dickson reveals, Eisenhower was, in fact, much more a master of the Sputnik crisis than he appeared to be at the time and in subsequent accounts."