Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities of a certain country, that nation could impose its own regulations. Beyond the three hundred mile zone would be the "high seas" of free space where no national control existed. For this Sputnik and trans-Sputnik area space law would have to be formulated...
Perhaps the satellite powers will be able to set up international control while their sputniks are still toys, and perhaps space law will follow some minimum preplanned structure instead of becoming merely a set of patchy decisions. While the field is still new, there is still the chance to keep some sanity in space, but since the launching of Sputnik, time's winged chariot has been circling the globe very rapidly...
...country forced itself to laugh. Sputnik puns flourished, and even official responses attempted, at the outset, to dilute the Soviet achievement. Both the President and ex-Secretary Wilson tried to minimize the significance of the innovation, but the public found its sense of humor dampened by something that seemed like anxiety but couldn't be; America had never troubled itself over the technological advances of her rivals. Her superiority was too great, her talent too secure...
...Republicans' difficulties are complicated by national as well as regional weakness. Candidate Forbes said, with some justification, that he lost the election because of "sputnik, mutnik, and the sagging economy." Eisenhower advised GOP workers in 1956 to: "Never underestimate the value of a grin." But even the Eisenhower grin cannot eclipse the Russian moons or bolster the national economy...
Citizens immediately contacted police in the belief that it was Laika, from outer space. The police refuse to believe that Sputnik II has jettisoned its canine cargo, and attribute it to some airborne joker...