Open AccessOpening space research: Dreams, technology, and scientific discovery
Author(s) -
Schultz Colin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2011eo400009
Subject(s) - humanity , german , george (robot) , space (punctuation) , space research , politics , soviet union , scientific discovery , launched , political science , art history , operations research , history , law , engineering , philosophy , archaeology , psychology , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , linguistics , cognitive science
On 4 October 1957 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics launched Sputnik, the world's first man‐made satellite. It may have been the dawn of humanity's toehold in space, but it was not the beginning of the story. In the AGU monograph Opening Space Research: Dreams, Technology, and Scientific Discovery, George H. Ludwig describes the people, politics, and experiments that led from weather balloons and leftover German V‐2 rockets to a highly successful U.S. space research program. In this interview, Ludwig shares some insights with Eos.