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Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age - Sputnik, Rockets, and Helping Hands (Hardcover)
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Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age - Sputnik, Rockets, and Helping Hands (Hardcover)
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Historians have established a norm whereby President Eisenhower's
actions in relation to the dawn of the space age are judged solely
as a response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, and
are indicative of a passive, negative presidency. His low-key
actions are seen merely as a prelude to the US triumph in space
which is largely bookended first by President Kennedy's
man-to-the-moon pledge in 1961, and finally by Neil Armstrong's
moon landing eight years later. This book presents an alternative
view of the development of space policy during Eisenhower's
administration, assessing the hypothesis that his space policy was
not a reaction to the heavily-propagandized Soviet satellite
launches, or even the effect they caused in the US political and
military elites, but the continuation of a strategic journey. This
study engages with three distinct but converging strands of
literature and proposes a revised interpretation of Eisenhower's
actions in relation to rockets, missiles and satellites: namely
that Eisenhower was operating on a parallel path to the established
norm that started with the Bikini Atoll Castle H-bomb tests;
developed through the CIA's reconnaissance efforts and was
distilled in the Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 which set a
policy for US involvement in outer space that matched Eisenhower's
desire for a balanced budget and fundamental belief in maintaining
peace. President Eisenhower was not interested in joining a "space
race": while national security underpinned his thinking, his space
policy actions were strategic steps that actively sidestepped
internecine armed forces rivalry, and provided a logical next step
for both civilian and military space programs at the completion of
the International Geophysical Year. In reassessing the United
States' first space policy, the book adds to the revisionism under
way in relation to the Eisenhower presidency, focusing on the
"Helping Hands" that enabled him to wage peace.
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