On this day in 1957, the USSR put Sputnik in orbit and things were never the same. The Sputnik incident inspired Homer Hickam, a teenager in West Virginia who went on to become a NASA engineer. I remember watching "October sky" a few years ago. It was a great movie about how Sputnik changed a life down here. He wrote a series of books about it.
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