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050 00 $aTL789.8.S65$bR45 2000
245 00 $aReconsidering Sputnik :$bforty years since the Soviet satellite /$cedited by Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith.
260 $aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c[2002], c2000.
300 $axx, 442 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;$vv. 11
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. 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.
650 0 $aAstronautics and state$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aAstronautics and state$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSputnik satellites$xHistory.
700 1 $aLaunius, Roger D.
700 1 $aLogsdon, John M.,$d1937-
700 1 $aSmith, Robert W.$q(Robert William),$d1952-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002437692.html