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Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series)
October 1, 2000, Routledge
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;, v. 11

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TL789.8.S65 R45 2000

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xx, 442 p. :
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OL3635946M
ISBN 10
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2002437692
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