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The appearance of Sputnik stimulated a great deal of effort in the education of scientists and engineers in the United States. This period is now referred to as the post-Sputnik boom.
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When Russia's scientists put their Sputniks into orbit, they undermined at one stroke many of the West's most cherished assumptions about the world balance of power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sputniks and ICBMs aside, Russia is pushing ahead at flank speed in vast areas of science, and of all programs put through for the International Geophysical Year, its is the biggest and most ambitious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its instruments, which account for 2,129 Ibs. of its weight, are "considerably improved" over those of the earlier Sputniks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Evgeny Fedorov, an official spokesman, said that Sputnik III had been launched with "customary chemical fuels," not with atomic energy, and the launching technique was about the same as with the earlier Sputniks.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the very thing that had led to such shocks as the launching of the early Sputniks.
From Combat by Reynolds, Mack
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