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The space age began with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957.
Sputnik hasn't had to face the latter problem yet.
Sputnik is the spark for Homer's impulse to build rockets, but in rural West Virginia the know-how and materials are almost nonexistent.
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.
The NYT fronts the revised GDP numbers, pointing out that inflation dipped to 1.0 percent last year, the lowest level since the launch of Sputnik.