Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...players took their positions, learning on the bridge rail. An argument soon developed as to where the Sputnik would come from. "I read in the CRIMSON that the Lowell House tutors said it appeared directly over the bell tower," a boy focusing a telescope suggested. It was suggested, however, that, at the time of that sighting, it was extremely improbable that the Lowell tutors could be certain of the whereabouts of the tower...
Five tuxedoed Lowell House tutors, armed with the proper optical equipment and spirits, met on Weeks Bridge at the wee hours of the morning yesterday to toast the coming of Sputnik...
...Sputnik Sighted...
...thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least 200,000 lbs. of thrust...
...flight of the sputnik meant that Russian science had matured and that, very likely a new generation of Russian scientists had come of age. German specialists have been employed in Russia, as in the U.S., but most of them have by now been sent home or are being used as teachers. Russian missile technology has risen far above the wartime German level. The Russians are now on their...