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1957-2007: Sputnik and the Space Race
A Guide to Selected Resources
Science Reference Section
Science, Technology and Business Division
Library of Congress
Selected Books ... Selected Internet Resources
SELECTED BOOKS
Cadbury, Deborah. Space race: the epic battle between
America and the Soviet Union for dominion of space.
New York, HarperCollins, 2006. 370 p.
Bibliography: p. 341-352.
First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Fourth Estate.
TL789.8.U5C33 2006
Critical issues in the history of spaceflight.
Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, editors. Washington,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.
659 p.
TL788.5.C66 2006
Launius, Roger D. Frontiers of space exploration.
2nd ed. Westport, CT,Greenwood Press, 2004. 245 p.
Biobliography: p. 227-241.
QB500.262.L38 2004 <SciRR>
Reconsidering Sputnik:
forty years since the Soviet satellite. Edited by Roger D. Launius, John
M. Longdon, and Robert W. Smith. London, Routledge, c2000. 442 p. (Studies
in the history of science, technology, and medicine, v.11)
Includes bibliographical references
TL789.8.S65 R45 2000 |
Sputnik.
Photo: U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission Web site. 
"Margaret
Mead and Rhoda Metraux looking at American children's drawings
of Sputnik,"
1958. Photo from the Manuscript
Division of the Library of Congress.
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Siddiqi, Asif A. The Soviet space race with Apollo.
Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2003. p. 517-1005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Originally the second half of Challenge to Apollo, a single volume published
in 2000.
TL789.8.S65S49 2003
Siddiqi, Asif A. Sputnik and the Soviet space challenge. Gainesville,
University Press of Florida, 2003. 527 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Challenge to Apollo. Washington, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, 2000.
TL789.8.S65S52 2003
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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
50 Years Ago, Launch of a New World
Achenbach, Joel. Washington Post. October 2, 2007.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/03/AR2007100300856.html
"Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep … "
Library of Congress Blog
http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=192
Hear Sputnik’s Beeps
NASA
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputnik.wav
Launch of Sputnik 50 Years Ago Began Superpower Space Race
Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-04-voa12.cfm
Milestones of Flight
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/sputnik.html
Space Race
Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/exhibits/dateline_moon/space.htm
The Space Race
TheSpaceRace.com
http://www.thespacerace.com/
Space Race
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
Sputnik: The Fiftieth Anniversary
NASA History Office
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
Sputnik Program
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik
Compiled October 4, 2007
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