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Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002lblf.symp...65s&link_type=abstract
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of US Human Spaceflight Symposium, p. 65-72
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Chronology, Histories, Space Exploration, Space Flight, Sputnik Satellites, U.S.S.R., United States, Moon
Scientific paper
I would like to take a broader historical view of the space race and look at the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States in the early years of the space race. Then I would like to add some thoughts on the writing of history and how we understand it. In the past ten years, our view of the space race has changed dramatically. Much of this has had to do with the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent availability of an unprecedented amount of information that has allowed us to rewrite that one side of the history of the space race. Previously, we only knew bits and pieces of what the Soviets did. Now we know not only what they did, but why they did certain things, which is an important aspect of writing history. Writing history is about making sense. It is about building patterns, about putting together pieces and making those pieces fit. It is not about chronologies. The writing of this new history indicates a fundamental maturity of our field and space history. We are now able to move from chronologies to making sense. One of the things that I want to talk about today is how we have understood the space race. Traditionally, we have viewed it in terms of action and reaction. One side reacted to the other and did certain things, and then the other side reacted to that. So there was this chain reaction of events. The new historical record suggests that's not so far from the truth, but perhaps we need a slightly more nuanced approach. I would like to touch on three very important milestones in the space race and reexamine those events in the light of new information-Sputnik, the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, and the Moon race.
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