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"The First Space Race" reveals the inside story of an epic
adventure with world-altering stakes. From 1955 to 1958, American
and Soviet engineers battled to capture the world's imagination by
successfully launching the world's first satellite. The race to
orbit featured two American teams led by rival services--the Army
and the Navy--and a Soviet effort so secret that few even knew it
existed. This race ushered in the Space Age with a saga of science,
politics, technology, engineering, and human dreams.
Before 1955, the concept of an artificial satellite had been
demonstrated only on paper. The first nation to transform theory
into practice would gain advantages in science, the Cold War
propaganda contest, and the military balance of power. Visionaries
such as America's Wernher von Braun and Russia's Sergey Korolev
knew these fields of endeavor would be affected by the launch of a
satellite. Moved by patriotism, inquisitiveness, and pride, people
on both sides of the Iron Curtain put forth heroic efforts to make
that first satellite possible.
Some aspects of this story, like the Navy's NOTSNIK satellite
project, are almost unknown. Even some details of well-known
programs, such as the appearance of America's pioneering "Explorer
1" satellite and the contributions made by its rival, Project
Vanguard, are generally misremembered. In this book, authors Matt
Bille and Erika Lishock tell the whole story of the first space
race. They trace the tale from the origins of spaceflight theory
and through the military and political events that engendered the
all-out efforts needed to turn dreams into reality and thus shape
the modern world.
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