Sputnik was 66 years ago today. I curated a set of about a dozen original Soviet archival sources (translated!) on the origins of the world's first satellite, hosted by The Wilson Center in Washington, DC: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne... #histsci #histtech
Documents added to DigitalArchive.org provide a look at the origins of Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite.
Thank you for this great material! Maybe I can use it with my students. Cold War and the space race is a hugely relevant topic for my research!
I was 11. Sputnik messed up my life by causing educators to think every half-bright male* student should become a physicist or some kind of scientist. My spectacular lack of talent for math never prompted my advisers to steer me away, until I found out for myself that I couldn’t do it. *of course
Thanks Asif!
Well, I need to go listen to Leslie Fish’s Surprise in honor of the day