Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment The Race for Space and World Prestige

Yet Sputnik also altered the world's power dynamics, sweeping Eisenhower in directions that were new, even alien, to him, and he misjudged the importance of space in the Cold War's "prestige race." By contrast, Kennedy capitalized on the issue in the 1960 election, and after taki...

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1. Verfasser:	Mieczkowski, Yanek (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2013]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Politik Artificial satellites, Russian > Political aspects > United States Astronautics and state > United States > History Sputnik satellites > History USA
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