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IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kieron Murphy |
Remembering Sputnik: Ernst Stuhlinger At the end of World War II, Stuhlinger joined the other members of von Braun's group of 126 scientists and engineers in the United States to work on civilian uses for advanced rockets. Here, he reminisces on Sputnik.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Kieron Murphy |
A Rocket Scientist Recalls the First U.S. Spaceflight A pioneer of the U.S. space program looks back at its first success 50 years ago  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Kieron Murphy |
Ernst Stuhlinger: A Legend of the Space Age His life story could have been written by a sci-fi novelist  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Murphy & Das |
Remembering Sputnik 50 Years Later Three veterans of the early days of spaceflight reflect on the impact a tiny satellite had on the course of history.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Although he is more revered for his role as an author, Clarke has well deserved the title of futurist for his groundbreaking thinking on space exploration. Here's an interview.  |
Salon.com December 13, 2001 King Kaufman |
Out of the blue It jolted America out of its complacency and showed us our enemies were smarter than we thought. The author of "Sputnik" compares the days of that shocking satellite to our own...  |
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2001 Ken Silverstein |
Huntsville's Missile Payload Pentagon money and Nazi rocket scientists turned a sleepy Alabama town into a defense contractor's paradise. Now President Bush is preparing to sink billions more into missile defense -- and give Huntsville its biggest boost ever...  |
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Matt Sullivan |
Celebrate NASA's 50th Birthday With Every Space Launch Ever! From chasing Sputnik to shooting for the moon and now dreaming about life on Mars, U.S. space exploration has pushed the boundaries of how out-of-this-world the world can go.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Saswato Das |
Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, famed science-fiction writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, spent a lifetime imagining and writing about technology.  |
Reason May 2002 Charles Paul Freund |
Sphere of Influence How big a deal was Sputnik? Pretty big. Paul Dickson's recent cultural history, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, explains...  |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
DoD Relinquishes Spectrum to Sate Wireless Industry Demands The Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration were asked to free up 500 megahertz of federal and non-federal spectrum by 2020 in order to make it available for fixed and mobile wireless communications.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Saswato R. Das |
Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) The last interview with the late Sir Arthur in a Sri Lanka hospital in January found the famed author still entranced with terraforming planets, space elevators, and the search for extraterrestrials  |