Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race by Paul Dickson

Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race

Paul Dickson

320 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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On October 4, 1957 as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made object into space, an 84-kilogram satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. While Sputnik immediately shocked the world, its...

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