sputnik

How To Use sputnik In A Sentence

• Spectacular Soviet successes in rocketry, beginning with Sputnik, sent the United States into a deep emotional depression.
• As with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the launching of Sputnik, epochal events can briefly change all the rules of the political game.
• Explorer One went into a higher orbit than either Sputnik.
• With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s. Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
• Yuri was standing by a small, remote controlled platform on tank tracks which supported a probe that resembled Sputnik.
• Two months later, although not missile related but even more explosive, the Soviets launched the Sputnik I satellite.
• The first sputnik and Yuriy Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1961 made this country a great space power.
• According to virologist Eugene Koonin, a co-author of the findings of the study, the relationship between Sputnik and the mamavirus is a unique “host-parasite” pairing. ���Sputnik��� Virus Can Attack Others, But Is it Alive?
• the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth
• Ever since the Soviets launched sputnik in 1957, satellites have been part of our consciousness.