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![Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBN2NGNlE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--86d034429fb1002cae608bc4529b6725d700de1d/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Sputnik-%20The%20Shock%20of%20the%20Century.jpg)
324 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781496215727
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 01 October 2019
Description
On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first artificial satell...
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![Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBN2NGNlE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--86d034429fb1002cae608bc4529b6725d700de1d/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Sputnik-%20The%20Shock%20of%20the%20Century.jpg)
324 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781496215727
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 01 October 2019
Description
On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first artificial satell...