The US, the USSR, and space exploration, 1957-1963.(Chronology)

From: International Journal on World Peace | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Shreve, Bradley G. | Copyright information

This article reexamines the political meaning of the Space Age during the administrations of Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. Using the foreign relations papers of the United States and an assortment of other primary and secondary sources, the author posits that space exploration, like the political summit meeting, served as a pressure valve or balancing point to the heightened Cold War tensions of the early 1960s. As events such as the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile...

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