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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I do too. So important for them to experience that sound.
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The issue wasn't a satellite, but ability of the R7 ICBM design to carry over 2000 lbs nuclear payload, and 1st, even w/o inertial guidance.
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