Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite: 11 (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

by RobertW.Smith (Editor), JohnM.Logsdon (Editor), RogerD.Lanius (Editor), John M. Logsdon (Editor), Robert W. Smith (Editor), Roger D. Lanius (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $142.88

  The contours of space exploration in the latter half of the 20th century owe much to the seminal but hardly singular event of Sputnik. This work looks at how this event changed history on October 4th, 1957 when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1.