San Francisco / Houston / Huntsville / Stonewall / Washington / Berlin / Budapest / Auburn / Fort Bliss / Little Rock / Cotulla / Aberdeen / Hermanstadt / Partenkirchen / /
Company
Naval Research Laboratory / Glenn L. Martin Company / Peenemünde Rocket Center / The New York Times / Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Lyndon Baines Johnson / Chrysler Corporation / Douglas Aircraft / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Italy / Soviet Union / Hungary / France / Japan / Germany / West Germany / Russia / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / Product Recall / Product Issues / M&A / /
Facility
George Washington University / University of California Radiation Laboratory / Clark University / California Institute of Technology / Harvard University / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Naval Research Laboratory / Southwest Texas State Teachers College / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Pearl Harbor / University of Chicago / Fort Strong / Redstone Ordnance Plant / Tufts University / /
IndustryTerm
space travel / man-made satellite / atomic energy / scientific satellite program / chemical mortar / gross national product / satellite programs / space food / satellite program / larger and heavier satellite / /
MedicalCondition
cuts / /
Movie
Strategic Air Command / Frau im Mond / /
MusicGroup
Joint Chiefs of Staff / /
NaturalFeature
Sinai peninsula / /
Organization
Redstone Arsenal / Preparedness Subcommittee / Ordnance Guided Missile Center / Air Force Scientific Advisory Board / Little Rock High School / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Army / Senate / German Rocket Society / Weapons Department / Senate Armed Forces Committee / Armed Services Committee / University of California Radiation Laboratory / Pentagon / National Science Foundation / Science Advisory Committee / Rockefeller Board / Arkansas National Guard / Carnegie Institution / White House / Ballistic Missile Agency / National Security Council / Strategic Air Command / German Society for Space Travel / Senate Committee on Armed Services / Clark University / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics / Teachers College / Supreme Court / Bureau of the Budget / Navy / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Russian Army / George Washington University / German army / Smithsonian Institute / California Institute of Technology / Harvard University / Atomic Energy Commission / Tufts University / German navy / Congress / federal government / the University of Chicago / Executive Office / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / office of Research / Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee / Department of Defense / /
Person
James Killian / Jr. / Walter Lippman / Richard M. Nixon / Alan Waterman / James C. Hagerty / Walter McDougall / Robert M. Kleberg / Maxwell Taylor / Johnson / Edward Teller / Roy T. Hurley / Vannevar Bush / Wernher von Braun / Lawrence Hyland / Sam Rayburn / Franklin Roosevelt / Neil H. McElroy / Edwin L. Weisl / Leonardo da Vinci / H.J. Knerr / Marion Folsom / Jules Verne / Ray Bradbury / Styles Bridges / Orval Faubus / Carl Spaatz / Robert E. Gross / Charles E. Wilson / G.M. Barnes / Harry Truman / John B. Medaris / Adolf Hitler / Charles Lindbergh / H.N. Toftoy / Dwight Eisenhower / Theodore von Karman / Richard B. Russell / Robert H. Goddard / Isaac Asimov / Donald W. Douglas / Hermann J. Oberth / Robert A. Lovett / Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky / Frank J. Malina / Homer Stewart / James H. Doolittle / Edgar Rice Burroughs / James P. Hamill / E. Eugene Root / /
Position
Secretary of Health / advisor / Vice President / technical director / General / Secretary / deaf and impoverished school teacher / vice president of Lockheed / professor of physics / Chief of Staff / president and chairman of the board / Chief Counsel / Representative / advice and good counsel / Major General / science professor / Teller / Speaker / Secretary of Defense / same evening Secretary / Colonel / becoming chairman / Assistant Secretary / Majority Leader / Special Assistant / Democratic leader / president / Director of the Operations Division / Defense Secretary / diplomatic advisors / Secretary of State / Press Secretary / mechanic and locksmith / Major / commander and deputy commander / Counsel / hearings and take counsel / science fiction writer / chief engineer / Republican president / technician / science advisor / Governor / Chairman / Director / enormously popular Republican president / a secretary to Representative Robert M. Kleberg / /
CHAPTER 1: October 1957 “I was at my ranch in Texas,” Lyndon Baines Johnson recalled, “when news of Sputnik flashed across the globe[removed]and simultaneously a new era of history dawned over the