How does it effect our lives?
2007-10-04 06:47:45 · 13 answers · asked by Angelheart♥ 5 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
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2007-10-04 06:55:39 · update #1
Sputnik? If so, it started the space race, and caused the U.S. to spend billions trying to catch up with the Soviets. All sorts of inventions, products, and technologies spun off of that effort.
2007-10-04 06:49:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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What significant occurance happened on October 4, 1957?
How does it effect our lives?
2015-08-08 06:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by Mildred 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia notes:
The surprise launch of Sputnik 1, coupled with the spectacular failure of the United States' first two Project Vanguard launch attempts, shocked the United States, which responded with a number of early satellite launches, including Explorer I, Project SCORE, and Courier 1B. The Sputnik crisis also led to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA and NASA, and to major increases in U.S. government spending on scientific research and education.
The launch of Sputnik 1 inspired U.S. writer Herb Caen to coin the term "beatnik" in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958.[1] See also: -nik.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik
After 10-4-57, the space race was on between the US and the USSR. Both sides feared the military dominance that would belong to the first nation that conquered space. Math and science education in the US suddenly became a high priority. NASA received a huge influx of new funding.
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2007-10-04 06:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A very significant day.
1. Launching of Sputnik
2. First episode of Leave it to Beaver
2007-10-04 06:51:47 · answer #4 · answered by nileslad 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Sputnik was launched which led directly to the space race and man landing on the moon and was just another in a series of events which lead to the Cold War
2007-10-05 04:34:15 · answer #5 · answered by dave n 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sputnik 1 the first artificial satellite was launched into space followed about 6 weeks later with sputnik(fellow traveler) 2 with a dog named Laika.
2007-10-04 06:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. On that same day, Canada's Avro Arrow is unveiled to the public.
2007-10-04 06:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Edsel was released to the public on or around the beginning of October of 1957.
2016-03-16 23:46:49 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the date that the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union. It started the "space race," among other things, and was the forerunner to satellite technology of all sorts, including communications and weather satellites, which affect our lives on a daily basis.
2007-10-04 06:56:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to be the Soviet's launching of Sputnik.
2007-10-04 06:51:29 · answer #10 · answered by jerzybuckeye 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋