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The winner of the toss, MIT computer scientist Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (or "Lick," as he insisted on being called), got the top job at an obscure government agency known as the Command and Control Research Division, a division of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which was created after Sputnik to close the purported gap between Soviet and American science.
Believe it or not, the wondrous Sputnik satellite of 1957 compares to a 1990s communications satellite as those obsolete IBM computer cards compare to modern disk storage units.
The Russians built the sturdy Sputnik, MiGs, and AK-47s, but they couldn't make bras or toasters.
The space age began with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957.
It opens at one of the Cold War's cultural turning points: the appearance of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957, when the people of Coalwood (and everywhere else) gathered on their lawns to get a glimpse of the moving dot of light in the October sky.