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But bellicose intercontinental ballistic missiles were not the only spawn of Sputnik's launch. There was also the satellite itself.

All that new money led to a real-estate gold rush that has seen property prices rocket like a Sputnik.

You could argue that to invoke Sputnik is merely to say that America needs to wake up and take remedial action.

In fact, the U. S. education system has been having this sort of Sputnik moment since -- well, Sputnik.

And after a couple of hours, they actually start picking up the signal, because the Soviets made Sputnik very easy to track.

The company's roots can be traced back to the design bureau that launched the first Sputnik in 1957 and put the first man in space in 1961.

With this in mind, he decided to revive scholasticism as an academic lark to challenge the Sputnik-panicked classrooms of America.

NORRIS: You know, President Obama said last night that because of Sputnik, America unleashed this massive wave of innovation.

Then, many people predicted that, with the retirement of the Sputnik-generation, new jobs at the universities would open up in the 90s.

Is China's latest technological drive going to end up producing yet another Sputnik moment for the U. S. ?

In 1958, after the Soviets put up Sputnik, it was "That's the end of America. "

President Obama called clean energy "our generation's Sputnik" moment during his State of the Union address.

It is not hard to see why the Sputnik era appeals to Mr Obama.

His advisers fret that federal research and development has fallen sharply since the Sputnik era.

In nineteen fifty-seven the Soviets put the first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the Earth.

A case in point is the Obama administration's refrain that China's rise presents America with a new "Sputnik moment" .

Sputnik moment this time probably means America is more like the Soviets and China is more like the good old America.

Whereas Sputnik 3 looked like a star of the fifth magnitude, Luna 2 was like a star of the seventeenth magnitude.

Rocket propellant has barely changed in the more than 50 years since the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik.

Earlier this year, Obama called China's rise another "Sputnik moment, " recalling how the Soviet Union's 1957 space launch unnerved America.

[The Chinese] have launched the equivalent of a Sputnik in cyberspace, and the U. S. and other countries are scrambling to catch up.

His novel The Sputnik Sweetheart as a representation displays the basic feature of multicultural.

The post-Sputnik era drove the rapid growth in PhD physicists that came to an abrupt halt as the Vietnam war drained the science budget.

It may have seemed obvious after Sputnik that America should make a big public investment in technology. No similar consensus applies today.

But Sputnik provoked wonderful changes as well.

Sputnik wasn't a technical loss, but it was a prestige loss.

Dwight Eisenhower was haunted by Sputnik and his multiplying medical problems.

After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, in 1957, the U. S. space program skyrocketed.

But harking back to Sputnik is hardly consistent with "friendly competition" .

Hill, who has used telescopes since he was a child during the Sputnik era, has been on the team since 1999.

Model of the Russian satellite Sputnik I on display at the Soviet pavilion during the 1958 World's Fair.

Apparently, these messages had actually been received via the Sputnik satellite, but no one had any idea how to decode them at the time.

"The United States should fear China's 'Green Sputnik. '"

While historians generally date the Space Age back to Sputnik's launch in 1957, our captivation with space travel began much earlier.

"This is our generation's Sputnik moment, " he said.

In the 1960s, because of Sputnik, a tremendous number of university jobs opened up. The number of professors soared exponentially.

NORRIS: Now, take us back to the day before most Americans had ever even heard of Sputnik.

STEVE EMBER: In nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet Union launched the first electronic satellite, Sputnik One.

first artificial satellite launched fr earth . sputnik i is orbited by the soviet union , arking the dawn of earth ' s space age.

It took the 1957 launch of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite, to break the policy logjam.

The trouble with applying the Sputnik moment to China is that it is not much of an analogy.

In the 1950s, the Sputnik launching ushered in heavier workloads for American students in the race to keep up with the Soviet Union.

It happens months after the Soviet Union launches the very first satellite, Sputnik.

Sputnik is the first satellite to enter the great beyond of space.

Before Soviet engineers built the rockets that put Sputnik in orbit, warfare was seen as being, in some sense, a limited thing.

Mr. Stevenson has two Russian partners in what they call the Stevenson-Sputnik Ranch.

That was true when German and Japanese armies advanced across Europe and Asia, or when the Soviets launched Sputnik.

That recognition has been painful, even if the Green Sputnik menace is largely a phantom.

NORRIS: How did industry respond to the Sputnik moment?

Within weeks, the Soviets launched another satellite into Earth orbit, Sputnik 2.

"Sputnik" was downtown, the negative.

And the reactions to Sputnik went far beyond weapons increases.

What about the rankings of our Sputnik 2011 competitor, China?

When the Soviets launched the Sputnik and then a man in space, the US wanted to show the world that they can do the same as well.

The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan.

Only 12 years elapsed between the launch of Sputnik and Neil Armstrong's "one small step" on the moon.

Few of them made that objection to Sputnik.

I was born in October, 1957, one day after the Soviets lobbed the Sputnik satellite into orbit.

Von Braun was on there showing how to go to Mars -- and this was before Sputnik.

In 1957, we sent up Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite.

And you can see we have Sputnik, and we have a Saturn and we have other manifestations of space exploration.

But then a big difference happened about 50 years ago, after Sputnik was launched.

I wouldn't call this a Sputnik moment.

By the way, that's "Sputnik, " I ran it last year.

The scientists are tracking the sputnik what it has no communication

There was the dog that flew Sputnik

Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New Frontiers ( Springer Praxis Books )

"Sputnik, the first satellite to enter the great beyond of space" (Dale Russakoff)

For example, some in this room went to school on scholarship because of Sputnik.