Sputnik Anniversary 50 Years Ago Today

For anyone under 60 or so, the idea that an artificial satellite scared the Bejesus out of everyone in America seems downright silly. But it wasn’t all that silly then and it did help to make the world we live in today. The Sputnik Anniversary is a good time to stop and think.The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History had a touring show come to town called Soviet Space, in which they talked about Sputnik, The First Man in Space and the many other Firsts that the Soviets managed to do during the 1950s and 1960s. But the most…

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