On the whole, Eisenhower's support of the embryonic space program was lukewarm until the Soviet launch of Sputnik.

DARPA ’ s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U. S. into space.

The Explorer program was later reestablished to catch up with the Soviet Union after that nation's launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

It was the same R-7 launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957.

According to Russian sources, the official decision to launch Sputnik 2 was made on October 10 or 12, leaving the team only four weeks to design and build the spacecraft.

Each phase was preempted by larger social issues, such as the escalation of the Cold War, the launch of Sputnik, and public concern over medical abuses.

In June 1961, three-and-a-half years after the launch of Sputnik 1, the Air Force used resources of the United States Space Surveillance Network to catalog 115 Earth-orbiting satellites.

The United States Space Surveillance Network ( SSN ), a division of The United States Strategic Command, has been tracking objects in Earth's orbit since 1957 when the Soviets opened the space age with the launch of Sputnik I.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

Eisenhower greatly underestimated the reaction of the American public, which was shocked by the launch of Sputnik 1 and by the televised failure of the Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 launch attempt.

Not only did the launch of Sputnik spur America to action in the space race, it also led directly to the creation of N. A. S. A.

Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.

The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginnings of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik I.

While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the Space Age.

This atmosphere was further inflamed by the 1957 launch of Sputnik, which led to fears of Communists attacking from space, as well as concerns that if the Soviets could launch a device into orbit, they could equally cause a device to re-enter the atmosphere and impact any part of the planet.

* 1957-Americans embarrassed when Soviets launch Sputnik space satellite and leapfrog America in high technology.

In 1957, the launch of Sputnik I, Earth's first artificial satellite, was observed by a Vulcan vessel that subsequently crashed on the planet, marooning several crew members for a number of months in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania ; this constituted the first true contact between Humans and Vulcans, but it was never recorded as such as the Humans were unaware of the alien nature of their guests.

While motivated by the increase in the number of students attending college and a growing national sense that U. S. scientists were falling behind scientists in the Soviet Union, it was arguably catalyzed by early Soviet success in the Space Race, notably the launch of the first-ever satellite, Sputnik, the year before.

The NDEA was influenced by the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957.

The characters refer to years after ES ( Era Sputnik ), based on the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.

On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.

Because of this the network launch was delayed from September 1, 1988 to July 31, 1989.

* 1962 – NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

In February 2007, Italy, Britain, Canada, Norway and Russia announced their funding commitments to launch a $ 1. 5 billion project to help develop vaccines they said could save millions of lives in poor nations, and called on others to join them.

* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

* 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

* 1972 – The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

The Mercury program also used a Scout rocket for a single flight, Mercury-Scout 1, which was intended to launch a small satellite designed to evaluate the worldwide Mercury Tracking Network.

After a successful liftoff, the spacecraft fired three small clustered solid-fuel, 400 lbf ( 1. 8 kN ) thrust rockets for 1 second to separate the spacecraft from the launch vehicle.

The spacecraft performed all programmed activities successfully and returned useful data from launch until 22: 05: 07 UT on October 1, 1965, when the distance from Earth ( 309. 2 million km ) and the antenna orientation temporarily halted signal acquisition.

Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Mariner series of spacecraft ( Mariners 1 through 10 ) was approximately $ 554 million.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, released in 2011, became the world's ' Fastest-Growing MMO Ever ' after gaining 1 million subscribers within the first three days of its launch.

The first test launch took place on 16 August 1968, the first successful at-sea launch was from a surface ship, the historic ( from July 1 to December 16, 1969 ), earning the ship the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the first test launch from a submarine took place on the on 3 August 1970.

* Pioneer 0 ( Thor-Able 1, Pioneer ) – Lunar orbiter, destroyed ( Thor failure 77 seconds after launch ) August 17, 1958

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

With liquid oxygen costing $ 0. 15 per kilogram and liquid hydrogen $ 2. 20 per kilogram, the Space Shuttle has a liquid propellant expense of approximately $ 1. 4 million for each launch that costs $ 450 million from other expenses ( with 40 % of the mass of propellants used by it being liquids in the external fuel tank, 60 % solids in the SRBs ).

Supposedly, this encounter inspired the Pope to launch a mission to bring Christianity to their countrymen.

* Also inspired by the same Marlowe quotation is " If a face could launch a thousand ships, then where am I to go?

They walk and talk, sit and talk, go to shrinks, go to lunch, make love and talk, talk to the camera, or launch into inspired monologues like Annie's free-association as she describes her family to Alvy.

This inspired them to launch a second-hand book business from home.

By 1927, the lure of Hollywood inspired local merchants to launch a campaign to change the community's name to North Hollywood.

In 2007, the 50th anniversary of the 500's launch, Fiat launched the new Fiat 500, stylistically inspired by the 500 but considerably heavier and larger, featuring a front-mounted engine and front-wheel drive.

The experience of living on the street inspired Pras to launch prAsperity project in May 2007. prAsperity project is a non-profit organization that jump-starts awareness and solutions for intractable problems affecting the human condition.

: " It should be noted as a historical footnote that Richard Stallman who inspired the free software and free culture movement also proposed his own encyclopedia in 1999 and attempted to launch it in the same year that Wikipedia took off.

The two artists had met in Milan in November 2008, when Vettriano was invited by the Swan Group as guest of honour to their Gala Dinner to celebrate the launch of their new magazine, in part inspired by the women in Vettriano's paintings.

It has been said this Triple-A format inspired the launch of BBC 6 Music years later.

Ironically, the film inspired the workers of his own loss-making press in Benares to launch a strike, after they were not paid their salaries.

This inspired Microsoft Taiwan to launch an official mascot for Microsoft Silverlight, Hikaru.

Originally conceived to follow the UK Prestel specifications, and developed on contract by IBM Germany, Btx added a number of additional features before launch, including some inspired by the French Minitel service, to create a new display standard of its own, which in 1981 was designated the CEPT1 profile.

This album inspired the launch of the London based clubnight called Buttoned Down Disco, which took its name from the third track on the album.

In 1959, less than two years after the launch of Sputnik 1 marking the start of the Space Race, officials at Thacher and Caltech were concerned that the country's top high school students were not being adequately informed and inspired about careers in the physical sciences.

Bush told The Politico that attending the October 2006 launch of the aircraft carrier named for his grandfather — the — inspired him to join the service.

For Peugeot, a traditional manufacturer of conventional bourgeois sedans, to launch a transverse-engined front-wheel-drive saloon, was startling: no secret was made of the extent to which the 204 had been inspired by British developments.

This further inspired her to launch her own fashion line.

The patrol space ship Fireball XL5 takes off utilising a mile-long launch rail that culminates in a 40 degree incline, or sky ramp, which Anderson claims was inspired by an old Soviet design, a concept also used in the film When Worlds Collide.

He helped launch the High Performance Government Network ( HPGN ) and is focusing much of his energy on helping communities become " wired and inspired.

When asked by an interview if Selena inspired her to launch a music career, Lopez stated: " I really, really became inspired, because I started my career in musical theater on stage.

The following two decades saw hundreds of people inspired to launch their own spiritual searches.

The name was inspired by a puzzle question that Connare heard at Microsoft headquarters: " Can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away?