Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige - Yanek Mieczkowski

Written by Yanek Mieczkowski
Read by Douglas R Pratt
Format: M4B
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In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhowers presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the worlds first satellite. What Ike called A small ball became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of space exploration. Yet Eisenhower refused to panic after Sputnik - and he did more than just stay calm. He helped to guide the US into the Space Age, even though Americans have given greater credit to John F. Kennedy for that achievement. In Eisenhowers Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of Americas space program, reassessing Eisenhowers leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. Yet Sputnik also altered the world’s power dynamics, sweeping Eisenhower in directions that were new, even alien, to him, and he misjudged the importance of space in the Cold War’s prestige race. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth.

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