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RJ Sahni Bibliography

Secondary Sources

Ellis, Thomas. 2020. “Curating the Space Race, Celebrating Cooperation: Exhibiting Space Technology during 1970s Détente.” European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 3 (2020): 275–295. https://web-s-ebscohost-com.libproxy.scu.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=90417443-5acc-4d27-b5ba-ddfdf5c605a2%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=147221661&db=a9h.

Koman, Rita G. “Man on the Moon: The U.S. Space Program as a Cold War Maneuver.” OAH Magazine of History 8, no. 2 (1994): 42–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25162945.

Peperkamp, Lonneke. “An Arms Race in Outer Space?” Atlantisch Perspectief 44, no. 4 (2020): 46–50. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48600572.

Sagdeev, Roald. “Sputnik and the Soviets.” Science 318, no. 5847 (2007): 51–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20048513.

Shreve, Bradley G. “THE US, THE USSR, AND SPACE EXPLORATION, 1957-1963.” International Journal on World Peace 20, no. 2 (2003): 67–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20753399.

Primary Sources (text)

Kennedy, John F. “An Excerpt From a May 1961 Speech by President John F. Kennedy on Urgent National Needs, Including the Space Program.” Digital Public Library of America. May 25, 1961. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1711

Siddiqi, Asif. “Pravda Newspaper Article, ‘Announcement of the First Satellite’.” Wilson Center Digital Archive. Published in Behind the Sputniks (1958), pp 311-12. October 5, 1957. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/165454. 

Siddiqi, Asif. “Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin.” Wilson Center Digital Archive. Translated by Gary Goldberg and Angela Greenfield. April 13, 1961. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/260544.

Multimedia Sources

“A 1962 News Clip of the Hydrogen-Powered American Centaur Missile Exploding After Take-Off.” Digital Public Library of America. Accessed December 6, 2023. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1712.

“An Excerpt from Footage of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, 1969.” Digital Public Library of America. Accessed October 26, 2023. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1713.

Rosenwald, Michael S. “Earthrise.” The Washington Post. Retropod, December 31, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/earthrise/.

Von Braun, Wernher. “The Moon Race: Facts, Fiction, and Dividends.” Hoover Institute Library & Archives. April 14, 1967. https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/984/the-span-classqueryhlmoonspan-race-facts-fiction?ctx=ef9754b5a99937b9212e38d885aae0d3f7b62746&idx=2.

WSB-TV. “A 1958 News Clip of an American Official Discussing the Soviet Space Program.” Digital Public Library of America. Accessed October 26, 2023. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1706