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This New Ocean the Story of The "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner NOT EVEN PAST Search the site ... This New Ocean: The Story Like 6 of the First Space Age, by Tweet William Burrows (1998) By John Lisle The Soviet Union appeared handily ahead in space. They launched the rst successful satellite, put the rst man and woman in space, performed the rst space walk, and sent the rst satellites out of earth’s gravitation and to the moon. And yet the United States still “won” the Space Race. How could that be? In This New Ocean, William E. Burrows grapples with this and other questions, illuminating widespread political manipulation in the process, and chronicling the rst space age. Cold War tension, exacerbated by the Soviet Union’s new nuclear capabilities, and the upcoming 1957-58 International Geophysical Year initiated the Space Race – the Cold War competition between the US and Soviet Union to achieve superiority in spaceight. The US and Soviet governments were eager to fund military ventures for national security; both countries poured billions of dollars into space and rocket agencies. National security was the foundation of the world’s public space frontier, which Burrows dutifully records from the US acquisition of German personnel (notably former Nazi, Wernher von Braun) and V-2 rocket onwards. Ocial emblem of IGY, 1957-58 Burrows contends it is a misconception to perceive Soviet dominance at the outset of the Space Race. The US never truly lagged behind the Soviet Union in space capabilities. Upon learning about the successful launch of Sputnik 1, President Eisenhower actually felt mild relief, contrary to the American public’s fear of inferiority at the time. As Sputnik 1 orbited over American soil, Eisenhower’s personal fear of infringing on restricted airspace by orbiting above another country dissipated. Despite employing Sergei Korolyov, lead rocket engineer and Wernher von Braun’s Soviet counterpart, funding and morale for the Soviet space program dwindled following notable accidents and poor planning. The leadership regularly used outdated technologies in an effort to save money. They also put Korolyov and his team in competition with another Soviet program planning a manned Moon landing. Many in the leadership questioned the goal itself – why spend increased capital putting humans in space who require life support systems when robots were cheaper and might obtain similar results? Privacy - Terms The Chief Designer Sergei Korolev (left) and the Chief Theoretician Mstislav Keldysh (right). In the centre- Igor Kurchatov, 1956 Following the initial Soviet rocket achievements, notably Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 spaceight, President Kennedy looked to quell the American public’s fear of inferiority by investing heavily in space. Noticing the monetary inux, politicking scientists secured government funding. Burrows scrutinizes projections justifying project funding given to the government, exposing their unrealistic claims. For example, although the space shuttle project was an enormous nancial undertaking, scientists justied the seemingly high cost by emphasizing the shuttle’s reusability, overstating the number of executable missions, and downplaying turnaround time. The cost per mission looked good on paper, but the gures rested on misleading data. The shuttle program could never live up to such deceptive expectations. USSR postage stamp depicting Sputnik 1 Along with chronicling Soviet and American achievements ranging from Sputnik 1 to the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Burrows also covers both US and Soviet program failures. These include Project Vanguard (America’s little known unsuccessful rst attempt to place a satellite in orbit), a fatal American ground test re, fatal Russian spacecraft electrical malfunctions, and space shuttle Challenger’s O-ring catastrophe. Each failure dealt a blow to the two superpowers’ morale, inviting the public to question its nation’s technological prowess. Saturn V carrying Apollo 11 rises past the launch tower camera A new space age has now begun. Private companies like SpaceX and Orbital Sciences are slowly taking the helm in the universe’s largest frontier. New questions arise: should space exploration be nanced by centralized governments? How does one justify nancing space exploration? If we choose to return to the Moon, land on Mars, or explore any facet of space, our technology will be rooted in the work of von Braun, Korolyov, Robert Goddard, and the other early rocket pioneers. The story of humanity’s very rst space age, exploring This New Ocean, is inspiring, gripping, and encouraging. William E. Burrows, This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Random House: 1998) You may also like: Mark A. Lawrence discusses The Global United States, George Kennan’s long telegram on the Soviet Union, and Nikolai Novikov’s views on the US intentions Matthew Tribe marks the forty-fth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing Kacey Manlove essay on How a Handshake in Space Turned Cold War Agendas from Competition to Cooperation All images via Wikimedia Commons Posted April 13, 2015 More 1900s, Books, Cold War, Science/Medicine/Technology, United States THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN Making History: Houston’s “Spirit of the Confederacy” May 06, 2020 More from The Public Historian BOOKS America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019) April 20, 2020 More Books DIGITAL HISTORY Ticha: Digital Archive Review May 27, 2020 More from Digital History FILMS & MEDIA Jojo Rabbit (Dir: Taika Waititi, 2019) June 08, 2020 More from Films & Media TEXAS Spanish Flu in the Texas Oil Fields May 26, 2020 More from Texas 19th century 20th Century African American History american history Asia Asia & Middle East book review Brazil British Empire China Civil War Cold War Colonialism communism cultural history digital history Early Modern Europe Europe lm gender history History of Science immigration India Islam Latin America Latin American History Mexico Not Even Past Public History race religion Russia slavery Texas Texas History Texas History Day Transnational Twentieth Century History United States US History USSR Womens History world history World War II NOT EVEN PAST is produced by The Department of History THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN We are supported by the College of Liberal Arts And our READERS DONATE CONTACT All content © 2010-present NOT EVEN PAST and the authors, unless otherwise noted Sign up to receive bi-weekly email updates Your email address SUBSCRIBE BOOKS FILMS & MEDIA THE PUBLIC BLOG TEXAS HISTORIAN.
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