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Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

Roger D. Launius

2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 464

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 31, 2000

ISBN: 9057026236

ISBN 13: 9789057026232

Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

Roger D. Launius

2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 464

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 31, 2000

ISBN: 9057026236

ISBN 13: 9789057026232

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