Reconsidering Sputnik

Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

By: John M. Logsdon (Editor), Roger D. Lanius (Editor), Robert W. Smith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The contours of space exploration in the latter half of the 20th century owe much to the seminal but hardly singular event of Sputnik. This work looks at how this event changed history on October 4th, 1957 when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1. The first artificial satellite was the about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds and about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age adn the US-USSR space race.

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'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)

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