The Launch of Sputnik?

Question

About it and what it was helpd for and stuff?

Answer 1

One good thing about Sputnik was it turned into a crisis that led to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA, and an increase in U.S. government spending on scientific research and education. It also inspired U.S. writer Herb Caen (San Francisco bay area newspaper man) to coin the term "beatnik" in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1958. Each of its orbits around the Earth took about 96 minutes. Many of the early missions carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research. Interesting, the Sputnik launch occurred back in the days when the Pentium had vacuum tubes and during this period the Americans and the Russians regarded each other as enemies. They built massive armies, navies, and air forces and were prepared to engage in global war at a moments notice. American military manuals regarded the Russians as The Threat and Soviet government went as far as training many non-military citizens on use of small arms to prepare for an invasion from The Imperialists. The United States was shocked. Senator Lyndon Johnson said the Russians have jumped way ahead of us in the conquest of space. He said that soon they will be dropping bombs on us from space like kids dropping rocks onto cars from freeway overpasses! The space race was on and now 50 years latter we all work together in space!