eBooks - History - Science - Paul Dickson - Sputnik
Sputnik eBooks
by Paul Dickson
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Sputnik Summary
| As Paul Dickson reminds us in this fresh and tightly focused look at the first man-made satellite and the space-race that both led up to it and accelerated from it, the idea of placing a satellite in Earth orbit had been familiar to space enthusiasts for a long time-from Isaac Newton's time, in fact. By the fall of 1957-when most Americans did not even know what a satellite was-both the United States and the U.S.S.R. were preparing to go into space, as part of the International Geophysical Year. The Soviet Union went. And on the evening of Friday, October 4, 1957-as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television-an A-flat beeping from space changed the world. The Soviet Union had placed into orbit the first man-made satellite-Sputnik I-and the Space Age was underway. For the first time, Sputnik chronicles the dramatic-often spectacular-events and developments leading up to Sputnik's launch (and the concurrent American efforts to place a satellite in orbit), Sputnik's immediate and long-term impact, and the U.S.-Soviet competition that lead to Apollo 11, the Mir space station, and ultimately to our new wireless age of satellite communications. Dickson goes back to China in 1232 A.D. and the first military use of rockets. |
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