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Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957--the first man-made object to orbit Earth.
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.
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 is the spark for Homer's impulse to build rockets, but in rural West Virginia the know-how and materials are almost nonexistent.