Sputniks
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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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Amid shouts of post-toasty laughter, he ridiculed the U.S. space satellites as apelsin-sputniks -orange-sized Sputniks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the unseen fiery deaths of Sputniks I and II, the edge of space near the earth had belonged to three small U.S. satellites, playing like baby bluefish in an ocean.
From Time Magazine Archive
None of the Russians' three massive Sputniks had reported the Van Allen radiation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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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