Sputnik came along. This is a replica of that 23 inch diameter sphere that made the American public go wild in October of 1957,
And Sputnik 2 was a lot bigger and heavier than Sputnik 1.
After Sputnik we started documenting everything really well.
Lava can sputter up along fractures in the ground, called a fissure eruption.
So since Sputnik was launched in 1957, we've been filling up the space around our planet with satellite technology.
they called Sputnik 2.
You remember the Sputnik moment in 1957.
But actually Sputnik, the very first satellite ever launched in the late 1950s, was basically a radio transmitter.
He came to sputtering sand.
Because when Sputnik arrived, suddenly everyone looked at teaching machines and what was called programmed instruction, as maybe a new way to really help
This is actually a sputter-coated, lightly sputter-coated in about a micron of gold cast of a tooth.
We'll sputter on nanostructured titanium nitride, and then use this transfer process to basically get really good electronics built
And he starts sputtering.
Almost overnight after Sputnik, the ad artwork turned into bold colors and started this process
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It's important to see Sputnik as the opening shot, literally, of the space race.
And how did things change when Sputnik arrived?
The job machine starts to sputter.
think everybody everybody knows things about Sputnik and Gagarin and you know you have in the back your mind all the first they have but it really drove it
And that is the Covishield type of vaccine or this Sputnik type of vaccine.
But there were others that followed immediately after Sputnik.
And they're realizing that this is their Sputnik moment.
We had a golden age of specialized gifted education after Sputnik, when suddenly we saw America's smartest kids
That missile we just saw, the Sputnik that we talked about at the beginning of this talk, all the dog flights in space,
he says, this is a Sputnik moment.
All of a sudden, when it starts sputtering, you probably want to pull off and stop doing it.
But finally, when a second Sputnik is launched, enough pressure is finally put on the Eisenhower administration that they give JPL the go ahead to do a satellite.
And the idea-- You know, Sputnik.
And in that period of time-- that was 1960-- the Russians had sent up Sputnik.
Then off again. The generator sputtered.
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I've seen management styles come and go or structures rise and fall development Cycles sputter and
To make the mirrors, Zeiss used a process called sputtering.
So you see them-- actually, particularly Eisenhower, when Sputnik went into orbit with big provocation
Right. And then you mentioned 1957, Sputnik happens.
And once that had happened-- again, even though like Sputnik, it was expected-- the fact of it was terrifying to people.
If we can just pop that one up for a moment this is the rocket that was used to send up both Sputnik, the satellite, the world's
It would have been three years, basically two and 1/2 years after Sputnik got launched by the Soviet Union.
It is rather a small candle flame, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology.
So here's 1958. The civil rights movement is-- we won't say sputtering, but it hasn't taken off after Montgomery.
On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik.
could maintain technological superiority over the Soviet Union and never again be beaten by the Soviets after Sputnik.
And then 1957, when the Soviets surprised us with Sputnik, there was a lot of turmoil about what we were going to do.
DARPA was created same time that NASA was this is just like the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik. . [video shows new slide titled "DARPA" with bulleted points listed and picture
And a lot of these more archaic mammals, these ancestors, they sputter away to extinction. And
And, of course, in fact, US didn't win that race because the Soviets launched Sputnik.
Well, if you had to characterize the US approach to space exploration in the late 1950s, mid-late 1950s, the time of Sputnik, which was the fall of 1957,
He handed it to Lyndon Johnson, his vice president, because Johnson had emerged right after Sputnik as a real leader, as I mentioned before, on space.
Thank you. Yeah, so can you take us back to October of 1957, when the world changed quite dramatically with the Soviet satellite, Sputnik,