Sputnik, Cold War Nostalgia, and 9/11: The Lessons of Sputnik post-9/11
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Aerospace Engineering
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Military History
United States History
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Military History
United States History
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It is not an anniversary we usually celebrate and it was not any fun for the United States at the time. Fifty years ago today, on the night of October 4, 1957, a 22-inch aluminum ball, primitive by today's standards, sent the American public, and the policy and scientific elite, into high crisis.[1]
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2007-10-04
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Science Progress
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Article can be viewed online at: https://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/sputnik-cold-war-nostalgia-and-911/