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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mieczkowski, Yanek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969.
1953-1961
Artificial satellites, Russian > Political aspects > United States.
Sputnik satellites > History.
Astronautics and state > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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