Corona overview: Fear of Soviet missiles drove development

For younger generations who have witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's hard to imagine the fear caused by the USSR's orbiting of the tiny Sputnik satellite on October 4, 1957. Newsweek ran a nine page cover story in which fears were raised of a satellite...

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