Eisenhower's Sputnik moment the race for space and world prestige /
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| Materialtyp: | Elektronisk E-bok |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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| Länkar: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.