Bringing Outer Space Issues Down to Earth
In the mid-1960s, when the excitement of the space race stoked his interest in becoming…
Asif Siddiqi
Sixty Years Later, Sputnik Declassifications Offer Primer in Fake News
On Oct. 4, the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, Asif Siddiqi, Fordham professor…
History Professor Asif Siddiqi is 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
Fordham Professor of History Asif A. Siddiqi, PhD, is one of 175 scholars, artists, and…
Eight Things about Space Exploration You May Not Know
1. Humans have built five objects that have left or are about to leave the…
Those Bronx River Rats are Back on Campus
What do higher education and bar room blues have in common? The Bronx River Rats,…
History Professor Pens First Academic Study on Birth of Soviet Space Program
Space has been fantasized as the “final frontier” by some. But—as Asif Siddiqi, Ph.D., will attest—it’s one…
Sapientia et Doctrina Sputnik and American Nostalgia
On the night of October 4, 1957, a Soviet rocket lifted off from a location…
Sapientia et Doctrina: Sputnik and American Nostalgia
Asif Siddiqi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History On the night of October 4, 1957, a…
Dr N’s Rhythm Review: Egghead or Deadhead? Onstage, it’s Hard to Tell.
It was a Fordham first: Brennan O’Donnell, Ph.D., dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill,…
Journal Names Professor’s Book Among Five Best Books on Outer Space
Challenge To Apollo (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000), a book by Asif A. Siddiqi,…