American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit
Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?