Sputnik crisis

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The Sputnik crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957.

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Image: USSR Post (рисунок Е. Гундобина)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.