Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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LONG before Sputnik soared into its orbit, TIME's editors and correspondents had been exploring the fascinating vistas and terrifying dangers of space travel, missile war, and the scientific and technological resources that make them possible. Along with countless week-to-week stories, TIME took its first full-length journey into space five years ago with a cover story on the Space Pioneer (Dec. 8, 1952). In the following months the editors reported on the state of U.S. education in science, in the cover on California Institute of Technology President Lee DuBridge (May 16, 1955); on space medicine, with...
...Sputnik 11 had brought the Administration under new and stinging fire. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was trumpeting economy only last summer, was now moving full speed ahead on plans to investigate the Administration's defense program. Some hysterical pundits were suggesting a negotiated peace with the Russians "before it is too late." It was time for Ike to move fast...
...uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and business as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with the uncomfortable realization that Russia is racing with clenched-teeth determination to surpass the West in science-and is rapidly narrowing the West's shielding lead...
...sophisticated was the approach of Communist bosses to science-particularly since World War 11-that they freed scientists from the Communist system itself, set them up in a never-never land of unlimited funds, limousines, dachas, and even-in the last few years-freedom of thought. The Sputnik I that came as a shocking surprise to the U.S. public was no surprise to U.S. scientists. From keeping an eye on Russian research through scientific journals, from reports of colleagues who visited Russia, and from meeting their Russian opposite numbers at international scientific gatherings, U.S. scientists were well aware that Russia...
Most sensible Democrats were quick to point out that it was too early to be hitching a bandwagon to this soaring satellite. But as sure as Sputnik was the fact that Kennedy is riding high...