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October 4, 2007, marks precisely 50 years since the launch of Sputnik, the first man-made object to achieve earth orbit.(The Week)(Brief article)
October 4, 2007, marks precisely 50 years since the launch of Sputnik, the first man-made object to achieve earth orbit. The staticky beepings of Sputnik (technically, Sputnik 1--there were 40 subsequent Sputniki) fell upon American ears like thunderclaps, triggering a crisis of national self-confidence. The Space Race was under way. NASA was created; so was DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which later brought forth the Internet); so were New Math, the arts of modern Systems Analysis and Project Management, and many other now-familiar features of the pedagogic, technological, political, military, and managerial landscapes. America's first ...
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