5/28/2023 0 Comments Sputnik by Paul Dickson![]() Dickson chronicles the developments leading up to and emanating from Sputnik's launch. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first man-made object in space while it immediately shocked the world, its long-term impact was even greater, for it profoundly changed the shape of the twentieth century. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Army's missile program, lobbied incessantly that his Rocket Team should be handed responsibility for the first Earth-orbiting satellite. For years, former Nazi Wernher von Braun, who ran the U.S. In May 1979, he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote his book The Official Rules, which detailed the history of Murphy's Law and similar aphorisms. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects, including baseball and the military. Paul Dickson (born 1939 in Yonkers, New York) is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. ![]()
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