Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

In Sputnik village, there is no such discussion of vaccine politics. Some residents are nervous of catching Covid: two locals in their 50s died of the virus in the first wave of the pandemic.

Sputnik’s launch impelled an unprecedented expansion in America's support for scientific research and education in the face of a technological threat that caught us by surprise. Fifty years later, we ...

After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age (Smithsonian Books, Washington, 2007). Google Scholar Dickson, P. Sputnik: Shock of the Century (Walker, New York, 2001).

He then calls on Americans to revisit their spunk after Sputnik 50 years ago and rally for an aggressive, government-led innovation strategy that includes creating 20 “innovation hubs” – regional, ...