Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson

Sputnik: The Shock of the Century

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 space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first man-made object in spa...

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