Word: sputniked
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Twinkle, twinkle, little Sputnik...
...spite of Sputnik, etc., I still think the man is Dr. Jonas Salk...
...Sputnik...
...Sputnik, it was found, would not be visible in the United States for about a week or ten days. Its orbit was such that it did not cross this country during the hours of morning or evening twilight, the only times at which it might be seen. The Moonwatch teams would have to wait until the orbit moved, or "precessed, enough for observation to be possible...
...Once Sputnik began to be visible above the United States, the Moonwatch teams again became active, and now that radio contact with the first satellite has been lost, their daily reports provide the only information on the wanderings of Sputnik I and its fellow-travelling rocket...