Rep. Clare Boothe Luce described its beeps — audible to anyone with a radio — as "a baleful, intercontinental outer-space raspberry..."
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60 years ago today: Sputnik, the 1st artificial satellite, was launched by the USSR. Eisenhower on public shock: "Its light was blinding."pic.twitter.com/XqqJ1Kbl9l
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...to a decade of American pretensions that the American way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority."
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I play its beeps for my students whenever I teach this... they have an ominous quality to them, for sure!https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sputnik-beep …
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As a small thing: NYT and WaPo used same photo of Hoffa, but WaPo edited it slightly (removed hand holding Hoffa's) — kind of interesting.
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Are there any hard data on how much more alarmed (if at all) the public and policymakers felt after Sputnik than after the first 1949 test?
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It's one thing to know an A-bomb could be on a (vulnerable) plane that takes ~8 hrs to reach you vs. an unstoppable ICBM that takes ~30 min.
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Sputnik I "shock" mostly about prestige / "falling behind." Sputnik II more directly relevant to ICBM threat — much bigger "payload."pic.twitter.com/1ZpmukcSU3
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