What Sputnik launched
By Charles Krauthammer | Friday, October 5, 2007 | The Washington Post
“Fifty years ago this week, America was shaken out of technological complacency by a beeping 180-pound aluminum ball orbiting overhead. Sputnik was a shock because we had always assumed that Russia was nothing but a big, lumbering and all-brawn bear. He could wear down the Nazis and produce mountains of steel but had none of our savvy or sophistication. Then one day we wake up and he has beaten us into space….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100401922_pf.html
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