Lecture 9: The Cold War and the Space Race (Our Moon Course)

Lecture 9 of the Our Moon: From Imagination to Exploration course, which I'm teaching this fall at Johns Hopkins University. In this lecture, I discuss the Cold War and the Space Race as they relate to the Moon.

If you'd like to download the PowerPoint slides, please find them here (in two parts):
https://www.slideshare.net/VirangaPerera2/lecture-9-the-cold-war-and-the-space-race-part-1
https://www.slideshare.net/VirangaPerera2/lecture-9-the-cold-war-and-the-space-race-part-2

For more information about the course, please visit http://www.ourmoon.space

Image links:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATO_vs._Warsaw_(1949-1990).svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasakibomb.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Crandall%27s_UH-1D.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Srpen68)Horici_sovetsky_tank.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reuni%C3%B3n_Pinochet_-_Kissinger.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mortar_attack_on_Shigal_Tarna_garrison,_Kunar_Province,_87.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deutschland_Besatzungszonen_8_Jun_1947_-_22_Apr_1949.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dornberger-Axter-von_Braun.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wernher_von_Braun_1960.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SKorolow.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korolev_posle_aresta_1938.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_asm.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik2_vsm.jpg
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/sputnik-2-laika-03-nov-57-ussr-photograph
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter_c_pad.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_NACA_logo.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower,_official_photo_portrait,_May_29,_1959.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_NACA_logo.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_logo.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_510848_Interplanetary_station_Luna_1_-_blacked.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kansas_Cosmosphere_Luna_2_Pennant_2013.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luna_3_moon.jpg

Audio links:
https://images.nasa.gov/details-578626main_sputnik-beep

Video links:
https://archive.org/details/1957-10-07_New_Moon
https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180131-EXPLORs-0001-%2060th%20Anniversary%20Explorer%201%20The%20Beginning%20of%20the%20US%20Space%20Program
https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180131-EXPLORs-0001-%2060th%20Anniversary%20Explorer%201%20The%20Beginning%20of%20the%20US%20Space%20Program
https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180131-EXPLORs-0001-%2060th%20Anniversary%20Explorer%201%20The%20Beginning%20of%20the%20US%20Space%20Program

Gaither Report link:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf

In Sputnik's Shadow book link:
https://www.amazon.com/Sputniks-Shadow-Presidents-Advisory-Committee/dp/0813546885

Website: http://www.virangaperera.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virangaperera/

Видео Lecture 9: The Cold War and the Space Race (Our Moon Course) канала Viranga Perera