1st Edition

Reconsidering Sputnik Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

Edited By Roger D. Lanius, John M. Logsdon, Robert W. Smith Copyright 2000
    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

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

    'This well-documented book is...highly recommended for all readers who want a balanced view of historical developments in the space race and its associated politics. All levels.' - W. E. Howard III, formerly, Universities Space Research Association (Choice)