Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

462 ReMeMBeRInG THe SPACe AGe
Special Assistant for Science and
Technology, 55, 59
Speer, Albert, 80, 85
Spinof (nASA), 28–29
Spinofs, 146, 169, 171, 173, 360
Spirit, 394
Spiritual meaning of Space Age, 174
Sputnik: anniversary celebration, 211,
390–91; importance of, ix, ix n1;
launch of, 7n8; launch of, reaction
to, 55–56, 58–61, 158, 160–63, 167,
355–56, 410–11; technology and
national prowess, 26
Sputnik (musical group), 246
“Sputnik” (photo installation), 249
“Sputnik” (song), 249
Sputnik Foundation, 325–27, 326
Sputnik II, 6, 7, 161, 211
Sputnik Sweetheart (Murakami), 248
“Sputniks and Mutniks,” 242–43
Spy satellites, 14–15, 160
Stalin, Joseph, 214–15, 224, 254
Star Trek, 176–77, 178, 411
Staver, Robert, 74
Steinheimer, Richard, 307
Steinhof, ernst, 80
Stennis Space Center, 146–47
Stephenson, Robert Louis, 343
Stevenson, earl P., 139
Stoy, Rasputin, 245
Strand, Paul, 291, 294
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 162
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(START), 130
Strategic defense Initiative (SdI), 124,
126–30, 345
Strauss, Lewis, 62, 66, 68
Student Involvement Program, 412
Submarine-launched ballistic missile
(SLBM), 349–50
Sultan, Tippu, 26
Sun, Laiyun, 113–14
Sun xuecai, 120
Supreme Council of the national
economy, 256
Surveyor 3 spacecraft, 285, 286
Sustaining University Program
(nASA), 141
Symphonie telecommunications
satellite, 52
Szarkowski, John, 284
Szilard, Leo, 341–43, 341n1, 362
T
Tachikawa, Keiji, 30
Talbot, William Fox, 276
Tarkovsky, Andrei, 218
Taub, Bill, 304
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 56–57n7
Teacher in Space program, 412
Teague, elwood, 345
Teague, Olin “Tiger,” 165, 170, 171
TeamVision Corp., 116n14
Technetronic Age, 172–79
Technocracy, 56–58, 56–57nn7–8,
69–70, 172–75, 178–79, 369
Technological Capabilities Panel
(TCP), 60, 60n18
Technology: economics and,
144–45; impact of space science
and technology on American life,
135–36, 138–39, 141, 397–99;
infuence of ideology on, 121;
literary and social movements and
technology development, 118–19;
national prowess and, 26–27, 58–64,
400; rationales for space technology,
391–92; technological utopianism,
25; transfer from space program to
civilian use (spinofs), 146, 169, 171,
173, 360
Technology Utilization Program
(nASA), 28
Technostructure, 56n7
Television, 169, 182
Teller, edward, 341n1