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Session 4 - Sputnik and space

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Readings (TBC):

Walter Sullivan, 1961, Assault on the Unknown – part of Chapter 5

The announcement of Sputnik’s launch in the journal Science.

Patrick McCray, 2006, “Amateur Scientists, the International Geophysical Year, and the Ambitions of Fred Whipple

This talk is part of the International Geophysical Year reading group 16-17 series.

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