Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When confronted by a challenge, Americans have demonstrated that they can react and compete. The strong U.S. space industry is the result of the shock of Sputnik. Maybe what America needs is to feel threatened...
...kinds of threats we are seeing now are more gradual. What could be the economic equivalent of Sputnik...
Lurking behind the debate about out-of-sight overhead rates and suspicious- sounding bills for flowers and bedsheets is a deeper issue: the high cost of modern research. During the Sputnik era, Washington launched an ambitious university building program, which it abruptly abandoned in the late 1960s. Since then, private universities have had to raise their own construction and renovation funds. At the same time, they have had to grapple with unrealistic government regulations that require them to write off building costs on a 50- year timetable, despite the fact that most scientific facilities outlive their usefulness in just...
SOVIET SPACE, Museum of Science, Boston. A behind-the-scenes look at the Soviet space program, including a model of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, and a "space bicycle" used for travel outside the space station Mir. Through Sept...