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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With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957.
From Time Magazine Archive
One show used a helicopter, another a four-engine bomber, and a third shot Sputniks into the flies.
From Time Magazine Archive
None of the Russians' three massive Sputniks had reported the Van Allen radiation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of spiraling down slowly, like the Sputniks and Explorer I, it will stay on an almost stable orbit that will be only slightly disturbed by irregularities of the earth's gravitation.
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 Mack Reynolds
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