Eisenhower�s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and International Prestige by Yanek Mieczkowski (review)

• Autores: Michael J. Neufeld
• Localización: Technology and Culture, ISSN-e 1097-3729, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 998-999
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When I first heard of this book, I wondered what the author had to offer that was new on such a well-worn topic. After reading it, I am still wondering. Almost thirty years ago, Walter McDougall�s Pulitzer Prize�winning The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (1985) covered the same ground, albeit in a larger framework than offered by Mieczkowski. Twenty years ago, Robert Divine published The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower�s Response to the Soviet Satellite (1993), although he examined the period only from Sputnik 1�s launch in October 1957 up to the end of 1958. (Mieczkowski covers the president�s two terms and beyond.) There are also a number of articles on Eisenhower�s space policy, notably by David Callahan and Fred Greenstein in Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership, edited by Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy (1997).