Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige / / Yanek Mieczkowski.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 358 p. |
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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.