After Sputnik signed by Martin Collins

After Sputnik 50 Years of the Space Age gives us a guided tour of the artifacts in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. The inside cover reads, On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. This single act jump-started a new era in history….The curatorial experts of the Museum have selected and present the artifacts – from icons such as John Glenn’s Mercury spacesuit to lesser-known travelers like Anita the spider, flown on Skylab in the 1970s – that take readers inside the far-reaching effort to explore and use space. Martin Collins is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Spac Museum