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| List of Figures | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Was Sputnik Really a Saltation? | ||
| Pt. 1 | Space Flight in the Soviet Union | 3 |
| 1 | Rising from a Cradle: Soviet Public Perceptions of Space Flight before Sputnik | 11 |
| 2 | Korolev, Sputnik, and the International Geophysical Year | 43 |
| 3 | Korolev's Triple Play: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3 | 73 |
| 4 | Sputnik and the Creation of the Soviet Space Industry | 95 |
| Pt. 2 | A Setting for the International Geophysical Year | 117 |
| 5 | The Sputniks and the IGY | 125 |
| 6 | Cover Stories and Hidden Agendas: Early American Space and National Security Policy | 161 |
| 7 | Before Sputnik: National Security and the Formation of U.S. Outer Space Policy | 197 |
| 8 | Orbiter, Overflight, and the First Satellite: New Light on the Vanguard Decision | 231 |
| Pt. 3 | Ramifications and Reactions | 259 |
| 9 | The First Earth Satellite: A Retrospective View from the Future | 267 |
| 10 | Building a Third Space Power: Western European Reactions to Sputnik at the Dawn of the Space Age | 289 |
| 11 | Organizing the U.S. Government for Outer Space, 1957-1958 | 309 |
| 12 | A Certain Future: Sputnik, American Higher Education, and the Survival of a Nation | 327 |
| 13 | Sputnik: A Political Symbol & Tool in 1960 Campaign Politics | 363 |
| Epilogue: Sputnik and Technological Surprise | 401 | |
| List of Contributors | 425 | |
| Index | 427 |
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