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Looking Back at the Sputnik Era and Its Impact on Science Education
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Wissehr, Cathy; Concannon, Jim; Barrow, Lloyd H. – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
Two years and seven months after the initiation of the U.S. satellite program, Soviet Russia launched a rocket north of the Caspian Sea carrying the now famous "Sputnik I" satellite. U.S. scientists were aware that Soviet Russia was planning on putting an artificial satellite into orbit; however, secrecy surrounding the timing and the…
Descriptors: Satellites (Aerospace), Foreign Countries, Science Education, Political Attitudes