Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment : The Race for Space and World Prestige /
In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and...
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- What was the Sputnik "panic"?
- The most fateful decision of his presidency?
- Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik
- Space and Eisenhower's principles
- Cheerleader-in-chief
- Gloom, gloom, gloom
- High in space, low on earth
- Eisenhower's rival
- Radical moves
- Order from chaos
- Defeat and a score
- Priorities versus prestige
- Satellites, Saturn, spacemen
- Voyages, images, mirages
- Space and prestige in the 1960 race
- Eisenhower versus Kennedy.