5 Reasons Sputnik Still Matters On Its 50th Birthday
Despite our best research efforts, we?re still relying on internal combustion engines, but much in our lives has changed dramatically since 1957. Some of those everyday changes can be traced back to the launch, 50 years ago today, of Sputnik, the ... [... more]
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The First 50 Years Of Space: Every Single Launch... Ever!
It is the first of its kind: a graph representing every single space launch, starting with Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957?6039 spacecraft in all. The heights of the lines indicate apogee (maximum distance from Earth). Lines that extend off the page ... [... more]
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Educator Panel: U.S. Science Needs A Sputnik-Ian Wakeup Call
With American high school seniors performing below the international average for 21 countries in math and science as that big ball of Cold War scientific innovation turns 50, top students and educators agreed today that even another Sputnik ... [... more]
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Sputnik Bride
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Sputnik/Explorer I: The Race to Conquer Space
The cold war served as the backdrop of the competition to find out which superpower--the United States or the Soviet Union--could reach outer space first. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was officially on. [... more]
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Paul Dickson
Paul Dickson is the author of more than 45 nonfiction books, including What's in a Name?, Slang, The Hidden Language of Baseball, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, and The Bonus Army: An American Epic written with ... [... more]
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Cocktail Trails Visit All The Hotspots Featured In The ...
Vespa jockeys, lounge lizards and office assistants converge at this circular San Francisco bar to mingle, unwind and view the scene outside on Market Street from floor-to-ceiling windows. A space-age Sputnik chandelier and spinning top-shaped ... [... more]
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Sputnik (Song for Laika)
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the ... [... more]
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Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk ...
Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to & ... [... more]
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Meet Sputnik
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Genre : pop-music
Release Date : 2007-12-12
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