PDF-(READ)-Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Routledge Studies

This book explores Russias stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space It also examines the formation of NASA the race for human exploration of the moon the reality of global satellite communications and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century. Activities funded by NASA proposal: . PI Steve Meyer + entire CMB community. Workshops:. The Path to CMBPOL: Upcoming Measurement of CMB Polarization, Chicago July 1-3, 2009. Technology Development for a CMB Probe of Inflation, Boulder, 25-28 August 2008. By,. . S.Subhashini. . M.Tech. (COS). 1. st. year. INTRODUCTION. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.. Soviets . tes. t . atomic . bomb in 1949. Sets off an arms race. Technological advancement and competition. Soviet Union Test “Joe 1”. Launched . on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. First artificial satellite. At the end of WWII, the Red Army occupied most of Eastern Europe.. Almost immediately, harsh measures were put in place. . Communist regimes were established and Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain.. Your Task. Read the background information on Sputnik. . Read the Soviet Press Release about the Satellite Sputnik and look at the picture. Then answer the following questions: . How do you think Americans react to this new technology?. Dr Julia McClure. A brief introduction to intellectual history. History of Ideas (Arthur Lovejoy and ‘unit-ideas’). Begriffsgeschichte.  (history of concepts). Intellectual History. Cambridge School (text in context). Activities funded by NASA proposal: . PI Steve Meyer entire CMB community. Workshops:. The Path to CMBPOL: Upcoming Measurement of CMB Polarization, Chicago July 1-3, 2009. Technology Development for a CMB Probe of Inflation, Boulder, 25-28 August 2008. Warfare drove science. War provided a need for scientific and technical development, leading to government support. Vannevar. Bush described the bargain in ‘The Endless Frontier’. WWII achievements: RADAR, A-bomb, missiles, computers. S.Subhashini. . M.Tech. (COS). 1. st. year. INTRODUCTION. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.. Technology offsets, a nonconventional international trade-financing tool, is used by governments (buyers) to obtain industrial and technological benefits from companies (sellers) as part of international procurement. Offsets deals involve billions of dollars and this practise exists in around 80 countries around the world. Though offsets is a popular practise in defence, it is increasing gaining popularity in civil sectors. Offsets is often tainted by controversy and receives bad press. What then makes offsets popular? Governments claim that offsets deliver technology and knowledge transfer, skills in high-technology sectors, employment and expands export opportunities through participation in OEM supply-chain. For companies, offsets is mainly employed as a tool to obtain competitive edge and win sales in international business. In the past, there has been mixed results of case studies on the impact of offset both success and failure.Considering the mismanagement of globalisation, unfair trade agreements and the current political and economic discontent, there is a stronger need for governments and companies to use vehicles such as offsets to create a relationship of trust and commitment for sustainable development. This book fills the gap in offsets and focusses on how to manage offsets more effectively by addressing issues of strategy, policy and implementation, technology management, governance and risk in offsets. Technology Offsets in International Defence Procurement is designed for those studying international procurement, international trade, international business, defence policy industrial policy. This book will also be of interest to practitioners and policy makers in both government and industry. Dr. Eirini Karamouzi . Teaching History at post-16 and beyond Conference. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Cold War Studies. 1) Why Study the Cold War?. 2) Old and New Historiography. 3) Five paradigms: Ideology; Politics and Economics; Technology and Arms Race; Culture and Propaganda; Human Rights;. \"
On May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy declared:  “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” Over his remaining time in the White House, JFK actively involved himself in space decisions and several times reviewed his decision to go to the Moon, each time concluding that the benefits of being the leader in space outweighed the massive costs of the lunar landing enterprise. Logsdon traces the evolution of JFK\'s thinking and policy up until his assassination, which brought to an end his reexamination of the program\'s goal and schedule and his hope to collaborate, rather than compete, with the Soviet Union in going to the Moon. This study, based on extensive research in primary documents and archival interviews with key members of the Kennedy administration, is the definitive examination of John Kennedy’s role in sending Americans to the Moon.
\" Presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based on recent scholarship in the history of technology and on relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. Challenges the popular notion that technological advances arise from the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions that owe little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book\'s argument is shaped by analogies drawn selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that long have been available to humanity. The second theme is necessity: the mistaken belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological needs such as food, shelter, and defense. And the third theme is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of the novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological process. \"
On May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy declared:  “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” Over his remaining time in the White House, JFK actively involved himself in space decisions and several times reviewed his decision to go to the Moon, each time concluding that the benefits of being the leader in space outweighed the massive costs of the lunar landing enterprise. Logsdon traces the evolution of JFK\'s thinking and policy up until his assassination, which brought to an end his reexamination of the program\'s goal and schedule and his hope to collaborate, rather than compete, with the Soviet Union in going to the Moon. This study, based on extensive research in primary documents and archival interviews with key members of the Kennedy administration, is the definitive examination of John Kennedy’s role in sending Americans to the Moon.
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