Sputnik
Subtitle: The Shock of the Century
Publisher: Walker & Co
Published: May 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802713650
Subjects: Public opinion; United States; History: World; Astrophysics & Space Science; World - General; Technology & Industrial Arts; Sputnik satellites; Political aspects; Aeronautics & Astronautics; United States - 20th Century/50s; Technology / History; Astronautics and state; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Artificial satellites, Russian; History
First sentence: Listen now," said the NBC radio network announcer on the night of October 4, 1957, "for the sound that forevermore separates the old from the new."