A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 -- The Space Race Begins
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743294327 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A good history" according to Delta Sigma. I was in 9th grade for Vanguard and Explorer, but I would later come to work on Gemini and Apollo as an engineer at Kennedy. I remember studying the IGY in school.This book does a great job of bring the fascinating history of the beginning of the space race alive, and I hated to put it down. There are a few fa. As a neophyte, I thought it was interesting Audiobook Bandit I've always been casually interested in the space race. One of my favorite movies is "The Right Stuff," which details some of the adventure associated with early test-pilot avionics and space exploration. This book is particularly concerned with the beginning of the race - in 1957-58. The "ball" in the title i. excellent historical read I found the book to be historically accurate as well as unbiased in a political sense. Entertaining from beginning to end for a history buff like me.
D'Antonio chronicles the frenzied year of 1958, when the U.S. Space buffs will be familiar with most of the details of D'Antonio's story, but his fast-paced narrative incorporates firsthand accounts of everyday citizens caught up in the excitement of America's push into space. Pulitzer prize–winning journalist D'Antonio (The State Boys Rebellion) recounts how Americans, even though frightened by the Soviets' apparent superiority in space, warmed to Russian reports on the pooch. Army and Air Force hawked their competing rocket designs to a president apparently more interested in his golf game, and an ambitious senator named Lyndon Johnson made political hay out of rockets exploding on the launch pad. American rocketeers wrapped up the year by sending a laid-back monkey named Gordo into orbit. All rights reserved. . 8 pages of photos. From Publishers Weekly The Soviet Union captured the world's attention in November 1957 when it shot a shaggy little mutt named Laika (Bar
With dire warnings about national security in the news almost every day, the armed services saw space as the new military frontier. UFO sightings spiked. And finally the Army's rocket program succeeded. A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them. The Soviets had nuclear weapons, the Cold War was underway, and now the USSR had taken the lead in the space race. Members of Congress and the press called for an a