A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

1957 - The Space Race Begins

• Author(s): Michael D'Antonio,
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Pages: 306
• ISBN_10: 0743294319
  ISBN_13: 9780743294317
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Military / Aviation & Space , History / Russia / General , History / United States / 20th Century , Science / Space Science / General , Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics , Technology & Engineering / History , Transportation / Aviation / History ,

Description:... Fifty years after it began, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race, as the U.S. scrambled desperately to match the Soviets and President Eisenhower intervened to guarantee that the space programme would be run by civilians and not the military.