The United States and the Cold War in Space, 1957-1969

Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution

Description

A guest lecture rehearsing the key factors -- political and economic, strategic and diplomatic, social and cultural - that informed US space policy between the launch of the first Soviet satellites in 1957 and the successful US manned lunar landing in 1969.
Period27 Apr 1999
Held atThe College at Brockport, State University of New York, United States, New York
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • United States
  • cold war
  • space program
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson