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*'''Laika''': Launched aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, Laika was the first living creature from Earth to go

...the [[USSR]] launches the world's first [[artificial satellite]] called [[Sputnik-1]] using an R-7 launcher from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]].

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...erceived threat to U.S. security and technological leadership (known as "''Sputnik Shock''"), urged immediate and swift action; President [[Dwight D. Eisenhow

* Divine, Robert A. ''The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite'' (1993).

...ed in 1955, before the first launch of any type of satellite, the Soviet [[Sputnik]], in 1957.

...iberal]] ideas at the roots of the progressive reforms. The launching of [[Sputnik]] in 1958 at the height of the [[cold war]] gave rise to a number of intell

...stablished in 1958 as the first U.S. response to the Soviet launching of [[Sputnik]]<ref name="DARPA1">{{cite web|url=http://www.darpa.mil/body/overtheyears.h

...n the wake of the revival of interest in science following the launch of [[Sputnik]]. Quantitative revolutionaries, often referred to as "space cadets", decla

...progress in rocketry was upstaged by the Soviets in 1957, as they launched Sputnik, the first earth satellite, and kept their lead in space for several years.

...' John M. Logsdon, Robert William Smith, Roger D. Launius, ''Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite'' (2000); Robert Frank Futrell, ''I

...and technology after World War II, partly because of the Cold War and the Sputnik effect. The explosion of engineering research, which used to lagged behind

...2 April 1958, as a derogatory term, a reference to the Russian satellite [[Sputnik]], which managed to suggest that the beats were (1) 'way out there' and (2)

...ted technology and scored a propaganda victory with the surprise launch of Sputnik I, the the first [[artificial satellite]]. caused a major crisis and a reth ...ho wanted to restore national prestige.<ref>Roger D. Launius, "Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Creation of NASA." ''Prologue'' (1996) 28(2): 126-143. Issn: 0033-

...vent since the first news reports of the first [[Atomic bomb]]s in 1945 or Sputnik in 1957 that received the coverage that this did? If that isn't spectacula ...vent since the first news reports of the first [[Atomic bomb]]s in 1945 or Sputnik in 1957 . . .

* Logsdon, John M.. Robert William Smith, Roger D. Launius, ''Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite'' (2000)

* 1957 - U.S. embarrassed when Soviets launch Sputnik space satellite and leapfrog U.S. in high technology

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