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REACTION OF THE WORLD TO SPUNIK

REACTION OF THE WORLD TO SPUNIK. SUMMARIZED BY: ALBERT. CAUGHT FLATFOOTED. Raging Sea of fire the few had ever witnessed. Twenty rocket engines clustered in the tail of the 100-foot beast quickly built to full thrust. Incandescent gasses licked into the black night sky.

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REACTION OF THE WORLD TO SPUNIK

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  1. REACTION OF THE WORLD TO SPUNIK SUMMARIZED BY: ALBERT

  2. CAUGHT FLATFOOTED • Raging Sea of fire the few had ever witnessed. • Twenty rocket engines clustered in the tail of the 100-foot beast quickly built to full thrust. • Incandescent gasses licked into the black night sky. • The world’s first artificial earth satellite—Sputnik!

  3. Russian News • On October 4th, 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite was successfully launched by the USSR. The Soviet Union proposes to launch more artificial satellites in the course of the international Geophysical Year. The Sputniks will be larger and a broad range scientific experiments will be carried on them.”

  4. Ley expressed doubt about the reported weight of the first Sputnik! • As the reported size of the sphere was only 23inches, “Surely the satellite did not weigh 184 pounds! Why, that would be almost ten times the weight of the Vanguard.” • The director of Project Vanguard, Dr. John P. Hagen, he was correct in that the Sputnik was simply transmitting the inside temperature and pressure readings of the satellite and was not making any active scientific measurements.

  5. In the nation’s capital, news correspondents seemed to sense that there were big changes in the offing even before any pronouncements were made by congressional representatives. In an article “Moonstruck D.C. Talking in Billions.” • The President at the time Eisenhower’s press secretary, James Hagerty, declared the Russian announcement was

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