Sputnikschock
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tobit81
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Released:
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
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Origin:
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Bayern, Germany
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i would like to travel to Baiqongyr/Kazakhstan and visit the Cosmodrome.
Bring mich nach Baikonur in Kasachstan und zeig mir das Kosmodrom.
The Sputnik crisis was a turning point of the Cold War that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite. The United States had believed itself to be the world leader in space technology and thus the leader in missile development. The surprise of the Sputnik launch and the failure of the first two U.S. launch attempts proved otherwise. The shock of the Sputnik launch was so great throughout America that congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce referred to Sputnik's beeps as "an intercontinental outer-space raspberry to a decade of American pretensions that the American way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority". Privately, however, both the CIA and President Eisenhower were aware of the impending launch and progress of the Sputnik program thanks to spy plane imagery. This information was not publicly disclosed until decades later. After this initial public shock, the Space Race began, leading up to the first human being launched in space, the Project Apollo and the moon landings in 1969.
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