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Frontmatter
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT
PREFACE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS EDITION
PREFACE
Introduction
PART I
The Genesis of Sputnik
CHAPTER 1
The Human Seed and Social Soil:
Rocketry and Revolution
CHAPTER 2
Political Rains and First Fruit:
The Cold War and Sputnik
Conclusion
PART II
Modern Arms and Free Men: America
Before Sputnik
CHAPTER 3
Bashful Behemoth: Technology,
the State, and the Birth of Deterrence
CHAPTER 4
While Waiting for Technocracy:
The ICBM and the First
American Space Program
CHAPTER 5
The Satellite Decision
Conclusion
PART III
Vanguard and Rearguard:
Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy
CHAPTER 6
"A New Era of History" and a Media Riot
CHAPTER 7
The Birth of NASA
CHAPTER 8
A Space Strategy for the United States
CHAPTER 9
Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest
CHAPTER 10
The Shape of Things to Come
Conclusion
PART IV
Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the
Setting of Soviet Space Policy
CHAPTER 11
Party Line
CHAPTER 12
The Missile Bluff
CHAPTER 13
Hammers or Sickles in Space?
CHAPTER 14
Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis
Conclusion
PART V
Kennedy,Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation
CHAPTER 15
Destination Moon
CHAPTER 16
Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction
CHAPTER 17
Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy
CHAPTER 18
Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America
CHAPTER 19
Second Thoughts
Conclusion
PART VI
The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years
CHAPTER 20
Voyages to Tsiolkovskia
CHAPTER 21
The Quest for a G.O.D.
CHAPTER 22
A Fire in the Sun
APPENDIX
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
NOTES
INDEX
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