Sputnik
Subtitle: The Shock of the Century
Edition: Lrg edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780783897608
Subjects: Sputnik satellites; United States - 20th Century/50s; Political aspects; Fiction; Technology & Industrial Arts; United States; Public opinion; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astronautics and state; Historical - General; 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."