Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige /

"In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics...

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Main Author: Mieczkowski, Yanek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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