Today we talk about Arthur C. Clarke and his 1953 novel Childhood’s End, and how some science fiction writers helped poularize space exploration during the early U.S. space program.
Links:
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke [1953]:
https://archive.org/details/lccn_345027507125/mode/2up
Destination Moon [1950]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ2FcjakWgE
Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics by Arthur C. Clarke [1950]:
https://archive.org/details/a-clarke-interplanetary-flight-an-introduction-to-astronautics-1950
The Exploration of Space by Arthur C. Clarke [1951]:
https://archive.org/details/explorationofspa00clar
A recording of Sputnik’s radio transmission [1957]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwjYLWf23o
