Reconsidering Sputnik : Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9057026236
ISBN-13
9789057026232
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2000
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
902 grams
Dimensions
16.60 x 24.20 x 2.80 cms
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This book explores Russia's success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space.
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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