The organizers lay on coach transport from the airport, but if you're planning some postfestival touring it might be a good idea to hire a car: Sputnik Car Hire, www.
With Space-Bound Hubbies, 'Astrowives' Became 'First Reality Stars' In the late 1950s, after the Soviet Union successfully put their satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit, American fears over the Communist threat reached a new height. The U.S. was trailing badly in a competition that would come to define the next decade – the race to space. So on April 9, 1959, the U.S. kicked off its own space age by introducing the country to its first astronauts, known as the ...
June 12, 2013 - KERA North Texas
Hillary Rodham Clinton in MSNBC What America achieved after Sputnik is a symbol of what America can do now as we confront a new global economy, new environmental challenges, and the promise of new discoveries in medicine,Clinton said.
Michael Griffin in International Herald Tribune Without Sputnik there would have been no Apollo,NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a speech at a gathering of Russian and foreign space scientists. "We have learned much from each other and I think we can go farther together than...
Sergei Khrushchev in International Herald Tribune The Soviets won 3 to 1,Sergei Khrushchev told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The Soviets launched the first Sputnik, the first man in space, the first manned space station. ...... Americans have one victory: The man on the moon."