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Sputnik hasn't had to face the latter problem yet.
The Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit, Sputnik, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
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 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.
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.