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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.
Sputnik hasn't had to face the latter problem yet.
Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957--the first man-made object to orbit Earth.
The Russians built the sturdy Sputnik, MiGs, and AK-47s, but they couldn't make bras or toasters.
One month later, Sputnik 2 carried Laika the dog in orbit for seven days.