Sputnik came along.
Sputnik satellite shoots off into space.
Sputnik moments, you reserve those for grand visions that take your mind, body and soul to places that no one had previously dreamed.
Sputnik moments are occasions where you invent tomorrow.
And Sputnik 2 was a lot bigger and heavier than Sputnik 1.
After Sputnik we started documenting everything really well.
had Sputnik before we had Explorer they had gagaran before we had Allen Shephard and they beat us and we're embarrassed by that and
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.
Because when Sputnik arrived, suddenly everyone looked at teaching machines and what was called programmed instruction, as maybe a new way to really help
Almost overnight after Sputnik , the ad artwork turned into bold colors and started this process
I don't like Sputnik moments.
So yes Sputnik moments work, and if we can't lead all the time, let it be a Sputnik moment that kick starts our heart back beating again.
they called Sputnik , which meanscompanion.
So this Sputnik was upthere in space and it was making everybody nervous because if the
It's important to see Sputnik as the opening shot, literally, of the space race.
And how did things change when Sputnik arrived?
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
To me this is our Sputnik moment.
And when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik that was a Sputnik moment.
So in that case the Sputnik moment was a military one.
of kind of a competitive pressure with Sputnik certainly in the west and certainly in the United States and a lot of how we defined being scientifically
celebrating this year the 50th anniversary of Sputnik uh over the last 50 years certainly the world has changed science has changed too um and science's
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
Russians sent up the first satellite which they call Sputnik which
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.
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 .
commentator: One example that might be an historical precedent is the Sputnik and then
and Sergey and others a story about how when I was in fifth grade and Sputnik
Energy independence, that's not a Sputnik moment.
When President Obama said, "In a Sputnik moment, in fact we will rejuvenate the space program."
means companion because it was a companion for the Earth so this Sputnik was up there in space and it was
So you see them-- actually, particularly Eisenhower, when Sputnik went into orbit with big provocation
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.
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 .
So, to me, this is our Sputnik moment, right?