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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.
In the post-Sputnik age, Sun Ra argued, it was incumbent upon black musicians to master electronic instruments, notably the Moog synthesizer.
Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957--the first man-made object to orbit Earth.
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.
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.