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Sputnik, scientists, and Eisenhower

by James Rhyne Killian

1977 315 pages eng

When the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik I, the world's first man-made satellite, on October 4, 1957, shock waves from the event were felt throughout the United States. The reactions ranged from mindless, uninformed panic to deeply thoughtful questionings of the structure of American science, technolog…

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