Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources
Schefter, James. The Race. New York, New York: Doubleday, 1999. Print. This gave me an idea of peoples opinions at the time, although I did not use it extensively. USSR. "Announcement of the First Satellite." Pravda [Saint Petersburg] 5 Oct. 1957 This I used to find out some technical details of Sputnik. It was very useful in laying down the basic idea of what Sputnik was.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Web. 29 Jan. 2012. <http://www.archive.org/>. Several of my movies and a few of the primary-source documents I used came from here.

Secondary Sources
RussianSpaceWeb.com. Anatoly Zak, 16 Sept. 2007. Web. 28 Dec. 2011. <http://www.russianspaceweb.com>. This was very useful, and it covered almost all parts of the Sputnik projects.

Sputnik (1957-1963). Chris Mihos, 11 Jan. 2006. Web. 16 Jan. 2012. <http://burro.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/20th_soviet_sputnik.html>. This had much of the same information as the Russian Space Web, but lacked the same amount of depth.

The Life of Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky 1857-1935. Dr. Scott Madry, Dec. 1996. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html>. This was an excellent source for finding all of Tsiolkovsky`s accomplishments.

D'Antonio, Michael. A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, the Space Race Begins. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print.

This was my main source for almost the entire site. I used it for my timeline, for reactions, for technical details, and for general information.

U.S. Department of Education. U.S. Department of Education. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. <http://www2.ed.gov>. This site helped me better understand the National Defense Education Act, and what it became.