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Sputnik is the spark for Homer's impulse to build rockets, but in rural West Virginia the know-how and materials are almost nonexistent.
Masterminded by Sergei Korolev, the Soviet counterpart to the United States' Wernher von Braun (and, unlike von Braun, a native product), Sputnik seemed to represent a system superior to capitalism, and proved useful in wooing developing nations that had yet to choose sides in the Cold War.
One month later, Sputnik 2 carried Laika the dog in orbit for seven days.
In the post-Sputnik age, Sun Ra argued, it was incumbent upon black musicians to master electronic instruments, notably the Moog synthesizer.
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.