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...MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT IN U.S. rocket research occurred in October 1957 when Russia beat the U.S. in the cold war space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...
...conclusion of the performance, we talk about the fact that even though the trial was declared a mistrial, it spread the dampening of Darwinism throughout much of the Bible belt,” Asner said in an interview with The Crimson. “Not until the Russians put Sputnik up did we realize that our teaching of science was becoming slapdash,” he added. Director of the IOP Jeanne Shaheen said that she was enthusiastic about the presentation of drama at the Institute. “We had been thinking about other kinds of political engagement that...
...there! I was angry and yelled, 'But I saw it on TV! They went to the moon'." Now 38 and living in Dublin, he laughs at the memory, but feels bad about not using his degree in astronautics and space engineering. "Next October will be 50 years since Sputnik went up," he says in disgust. "This is not just an opportunity to send people 100 or so kilometers (62 miles) into the sky and to have a good time for 10 minutes for a lot of money," he says. "If we get it right, it will be the start...
...deep within us. If you think the secrets of the universe are dazzling, just wait until you explore the ones hidden inside your own head. In the 1960s, when human beings were first venturing into outer space, TIME explored those efforts and traveled with astronauts, through launches from Sputnik to Apollo and far beyond. Humanity is on a similar quest now, inward rather than outward, and just as readers decades ago came to count on us for news from the cosmos, so can today's readers look to us for dispatches from the brain. We will be putting together...
...about the relationship between the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and the wider Islamist conflict with the West? “It’s Off Broadway to Broadway.” Wondering about the different ways Congress can treat China? It’s “either scapegoat or Sputnik.” Want to understand subtleties of diplomatic theory? “Trying to do diplomacy without the threat of pain is like trying to play baseball without a bat.” Voila. —Abe J. Riesman ’08 is outgoing Comp Director...