Word: sputnik
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...stage missile! No, it's a satellite. In a highly dubious twist to the ongoing military tension between North Korea and Japan, the Korean Central News Agency now claims that the ballistic rocket fired five days ago was not a test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very moment...
Remember, it was the depths of the cold war. After Sputnik, our technological superiority was questioned; we were being beaten by a country that bragged, "America will sleep under a Russian moon." But Al brought us back. He brought us back by carrying the American questing spirit on his shoulders into the heavens. He brought us back because he took the Soviet challenge not only as a patriot--he took it personally...
...gods, we are cautious. We send the animals before us. The Soviets launched a dog called Laika on a Sputnik 2 space vehicle in 1957; in 1961 the Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...
...Soros jointly own an investment firmcalled Sputnik which indirectly made both thesepurchases as limited partners, according toUniversity sources...
When Reagan first entered politics, in 1964, Khrushchev had already promised to bury the U.S., Sputnik had been launched and missiles placed in Cuba. It seemed reasonable to think the Soviets might someday overtake the West. By the time Reagan made a serious run for the presidency, in 1976, it was easy to think the Soviets might conquer America militarily...