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Frontmatter
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ILLUSTRATIONS (page x)
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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT (page xi)
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PREFACE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS EDITION (page xiv)
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PREFACE (page xix)
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Introduction (page 3)
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PART I The Genesis of Sputnik
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CHAPTER 1 The Human Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution (page 20)
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CHAPTER 2 Political Rains and First Fruit: The Cold War and Sputnik (page 41)
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Conclusion (page 63)
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PART II Modern Arms and Free Men: America Before Sputnik
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CHAPTER 3 Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence (page 74)
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CHAPTER 4 While Waiting for Technocracy: The ICBM and the First American Space Program (page 97)
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CHAPTER 5 The Satellite Decision (page 112)
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Conclusion (page 132)
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PART III Vanguard and Rearguard: Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy
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CHAPTER 6 "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot (page 141)
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CHAPTER 7 The Birth of NASA (page 157)
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CHAPTER 8 A Space Strategy for the United States (page 177)
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CHAPTER 9 Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest (page 195)
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CHAPTER 10 The Shape of Things to Come (page 210)
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Conclusion (page 227)
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PART IV Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy
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CHAPTER 11 Party Line (page 237)
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CHAPTER 12 The Missile Bluff (page 250)
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CHAPTER 13 Hammers or Sickles in Space? (page 263)
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CHAPTER 14 Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis (page 276)
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Conclusion (page 294)
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PART V Kennedy,Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation
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CHAPTER 15 Destination Moon (page 307)
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CHAPTER 16 Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction (page 325)
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CHAPTER 17 Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy (page 344)
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CHAPTER 18 Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America (page 361)
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CHAPTER 19 Second Thoughts (page 389)
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Conclusion (page 403)
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PART VI The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years
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CHAPTER 20 Voyages to Tsiolkovskia (page 415)
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CHAPTER 21 The Quest for a G.O.D. (page 436)
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CHAPTER 22 A Fire in the Sun (page 450)
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APPENDIX (page 462
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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES (page 465
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NOTES (page 466
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INDEX (page 537
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