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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The space age was ushered in 55 years ago today (4 October 1957) with the launch of the satellite Sputnik-1. My favourite quote on Sputnik:
“Nobody back then was thinking about the magnitude of what was going on: everyone did his own job, living through its disappointments and joys.” -Oleg Ivanovsky, deputy designer for Sputnik
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The early years of the soviet space program on matchbox 7/16: The first artificial satellite. Soviet matchbox cover, c1970.
USSR 4528 - Sputnik Orbiting Globe (by pdxjmorris)
The front page of the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda after the 1957 launch of world’s first satellite: Sputnik.
What Was the Sputnik Moment: Video
Thomas Friedman has been doing it for years. Energy Secretary Chu has used the expression. And on Tuesday, President Obama called this moment “our generation’s Sputnik moment.” This 2007 documentary by David Hoffman explains what the original was, using old archival film.
Source: motherboard.tv.
