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...According to a 2006 paper published by the Council on Governmental Relations, the non-defense federal research budget increased ten-fold in the decade following Sputnik...
...Cold War climate facilitated academic competition among countries, due to the USSR’s Oct. 1957 release of the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into space. But changes in the landscape of higher education suggested more than just a race against Russia, and the 1957-1958 academic year saw discussion of a range of reforms that reflected shifting ideas about what education should look like and what its role should...
When Burke K. Zimmerman ’58 was studying iron meteorites to determine the date of origin of the solar system as a research assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), he said he never thought others would be using stopwatches to compute the orbit of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite sent into orbit the fall of his senior year...
...Crimson reported that five Lowell tutors wearing tuxedos gathered on Weeks Bridge to toast Sputnik as it soared over Cambridge...
...launch of Sputnik threw America into catch-up mode, funding for astrophysical research became very readily available, recalled Robert J. Davis ’51, who was a Harvard graduate student doing astronomy research at the time...