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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey : 1957 - The Space Race Begins by Michael D'Antonio is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them. When the Soviet Union launched the first orbital satellite, Sputnik I, Americans panicked. The Soviets had nuclear weapons, the Cold War was underway, and now the USSR had taken the lead in the space race. Members of Congress and the pr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael D'Antonio
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416568346
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Technology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (114 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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