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The Heavens and the Earth Study Guide
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by Walter A. McDougall
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The Heavens and the Earth Study Guide consists of approx. 75 pages of summaries and analysis on The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall. Browse the literature study guide below:
Part I begins with the death of Tsar Alexander II, blown up by a bomb from the chemistry lab of the St. Petersburg Technological Institute that his own father had founded. At this time, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was already writing about rocketry and gravity and trying to design rocket ships. He is known as the father of modern cosmonautics. Even backward Russia was active in work on aviation and rocketry in the years before World War I and the Russian Revolution. ( read more) Part 1: Chapter 1, The Human Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution Part 1: Chapter 2, Political Rains and First Fruit: The Cold War and Sputnik Part 2: Chapter 3, Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence Part 2: Chapter 4, While Waiting for Technocracy: the ICBM and the First American Space Program Part 2: Chapter 5, The Satellite Decision Part 3: Chapter 6, "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot Part 3: Chapter 7, The Birth of NASA Part 3: Chapter 8, A Space Strategy for the United States Part 3: Chapter 9, Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest Part 3: Chapter 10, The Shape of Things to Come Part 4: Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy Part 4: Chapter 11, Party Line Part 4: Chapter 12, The Missile Bluff Part 4: Chapter 13, Hammers or Sickles in Space? Part 4: Chapter 14, Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis Part 5: Chapter 15, Destination Moon Part 5: Chapter 16, Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction Part 5: Chapter 17, Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy Part 5: Chapter 18, Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America Part 5: Chapter 19, Second Thoughts Part 6: Chapter 20, Voyages to Tsiolkovskia Part 6: Chapter 21, The Quest for a G.O.D. Part 6: Chapter 22, A Fire in the Sun
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The Heavens and the Earth from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
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