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Secrets of 1957 Sputnik Launch Revealed

The Baltimore Examiner: When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph.


NPR also looks at the impact of Sputnik on science education in the US.

Posted by Physics Today on October 1, 2007 11:13 AM |

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