Sputnik And The Space Race
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Sputnik And The Space Race
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Author : Jordan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Sputnik And The Space Race written by Jordan Johnson and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In the late 1950s, space became the new source of conflict for the United States and the Soviet Union. The world changed in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. The world's first satellite, Sputnik prompted advances in science and technology. Each side was determined to demonstrate technological acumen and military prowess through the ultimate space race. This book explores how technological power was used in the fight for political dominance.
Sputnik
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Author : Paul Dickson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Sputnik written by Paul Dickson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Artificial satellites, Russian categories.
On October 4, 1957 as "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made object into space, an 84-kilogram satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. While Sputnik immediately shocked the world, its long-term impact was even greater, for it profoundly changed the shape of the twentieth Century. Washington journalist Paul Dickson chronicles the dramatic events and developments leading up to and emanating from the Sputnik's launch a story that can only now be fully told with the recent release of previously classified documents. "Sputnik" offers a fascinating profile of the early American and Soviet space programs and a strikingly revised picture of the politics and personalities behind the facade of American's fledgling efforts to get into space. Although Sputnik was unmanned, its story is intensely human. Sputnik owed its success to many people, from the earlier visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose rocket theories were ahead of their time, to the Soviet spokesmen strategically positioned around the world on the day the satellite was launched, who created one of the greatest public-relations events of all time. It s chief designer, however the brillant Sergei Korolev remained a Soviet state secret until after his death. Equally hidden from view was the political intrigue dominating America's early space program, as the military services jockeyed for control and identity in a peacetime world. For years, former Nazi Wernher von Braun, who ran the U.S. Army's missile program, lobbied for his rocket team to be handed responsibility for the first Earth-orbiting satellite. He was outraged that Sputnik beat him and America into space. President Eisenhower, though, was secretly pleased that the Russians had launched first, because by orbiting over the United States, Sputnik established the principle of freedom of space that could justify the spy satellites he thought essential to monitor Soviet missile buildup. As Dickson reveals, Eisenhower was, in fact, much more a master of the Sputnik crisis than he appeared to be at the time and in subsequent accounts."
Sputnik The Space Race
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Author : Marta Schaff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Sputnik The Space Race written by Marta Schaff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Artificial satellites categories.
Living Through The Space Race
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Author : William S. McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 2006
Living Through The Space Race written by William S. McConnell and has been published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This thrilling book presents essays and sources that capture the tenor of life during the anxious era of the space race. Newspaper and magazine articles chronicle the events and analyze their societal impact. Personal narratives give voice to the frustrations, fears, and aspirations of the men and women involved in the space race. Editor William S. McConnell's collection of content will thrill your readers.
Sputnik The Space Race
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Author : Marta Schaff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Sputnik The Space Race written by Marta Schaff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Race To Space
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Author : Clive Gifford
language : en
Publisher: words & pictures
Release Date : 2019-05-21
The Race To Space written by Clive Gifford and has been published by words & pictures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
You know that man has walked on the Moon, but do you know the story of how he got there? With the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing on July 20th 2019, this book celebrates the Space Race rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Readers will learn about the neck-and-neck race between the two superpowers, through an illustrated story of the rivalry that gripped the world. From Russia's first satellite, Sputnik, to Neil Armstrong planting a U.S. a flag on the moon, discover the events that unfolded through amazing nostalgic illustrations and engaging text. Explore, too, how these two space agencies now work together, and how the monumental achievements of the space race have created world-changing technology that we all use and benefit from today.
The Space Race
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Author : Donald William Cox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Space Race written by Donald William Cox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Astronautics categories.
From Sputnik to Apollo.and beyond. A provocative political-social history of the space age.
Sputnik Explorer I
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Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Sputnik Explorer I written by Samuel Willard Crompton and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Astronautics categories.
The cold war served as the backdrop of the competition to find out which superpower - the United States or the Soviet Union - could reach outer space first. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was officially on. Featuring images, this work presents a description of the unforgettable time in modern history.
Space Race
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Author : Martin J. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Pomegranate
Release Date : 1999
Space Race written by Martin J. Collins and has been published by Pomegranate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Space flight to the moon categories.
The space race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful nations after World War II. For a half-century, they competed for primacy in a global struggle. Space was a crucial arena for this rivalry. Before a watchful world, each side sought to demonstrate its superiority through impressive feats in rocketry and space flight. Meanwhile, secret satellites were developed to keep a war eye on the adversary. At the Cold War's end, the United States and Russia agreed to build a space station and pursue other joint ventures in space. A contest that had begun in fear and enmity ended in partnership. Drawing on recently declassified material and featuring a wide variety of U.S. and Soviet artifacts, "Space race" examines the spectacular, publicly celebrated milestones of our first steps into space, as well as highly secret efforts to spy on adversaries from high above the Earth. In compelling photographs and terse, informed text, this book tells the story of time when the superpowers sought to make the heavens inseparable from the earth.
Red Moon Rising
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Author : Matthew Brzezinski
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-09-18
Red Moon Rising written by Matthew Brzezinski and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-18 with History categories.
For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia's chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cross American skies at will. On October 4, 1957, the launch of Korolev's satellite, Sputnik, stunned the world. In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources from both sides of the Cold War divide, he shows how Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower were buffeted by crises of their own creation, leaving the door open to ambitious politicians and scientists to squabble over the heavens and the earth. It is a story rich in the paranoia of the time, with combatants that included two future presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders. Sputnik set in motion events that led not only to the moon landing but also to cell phones, federally guaranteed student loans, and the wireless Internet. Red Moon Rising recounts the true story of the birth of the space age in dramatic detail, bringing it to life as never before.