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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 two massive Sputniks to compete with, the U.S. pinned its hopes for outdoing the Russians on the superiority of Van Allen's instruments.
From Time Magazine Archive
They fly high in rockets and Sputniks to measure the energy of cosmic rays.
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
None of the Russians' three massive Sputniks had reported the Van Allen radiation.
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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