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The green spending in Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which expanded federal spending and tax credits for ...
Sputnik — the first man-made satellite — launched 60 years ago today by the Soviet Union. ... In all, there are some 1,459 operational satellites now in orbit above our heads, ...
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. ... and it set off a wave of fear and anxiety across the U.S. now known as the "Sputnik crisis." ...
With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago, the world shrank and humanity’s view of Earth and the cosmos expanded. Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched by the ...
Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...
Media reports from the September 6, 1962 event say there were no eyewitnesses, but “there are hundreds if you ask now,” says J. Gregory Vadney, executive director of the Rahr-West Art Museum ...