« Doug Rushkoff interview | Main | Why Facebook accounts are disabled » SputnikBusy Jon L. was remiss in failing to blog the 50th anniversary of Sputnik yesterday. The Sputnik launch in 1957 kicked off the space race and left sci-fi spaceniks like me dewy-eyed with visions of space stations, moon landings, interplanetary travel, etc. - all in the name of science. We were too innocent to realize it was all about military strategy. Still is: the Russians want to establish a presence on the moon; watch for renewed vigor within the U.S. space program. Meanwhile I have nostalgia for an era in which we knew so little about space, had never seen the earth from afar, had no experience of the challenges of space travel. That all changed, of course, after Sputnik. [Link] jon posted this at 7:30 AM |
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