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Definition of Sputniks
1. sputnik [n] - See also: sputnik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sputniks
Literary usage of Sputniks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"... all the sputniks and all those rocket things up there," and he looked at me
and said, "I was up there and they did not let me in. ..."
2. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"... Part of the public's emotional response to the launches of the early sputniks
in 1957-1958 reflected fears that the Soviets would launch nuclear weapons ..."
3. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"... a writer for Fortune magazine pointed out that the Saturn V could lift "1500
sputniks on a single launch, ..."
4. Twist & Build: Creating Non-orthogonal Architecture by Karel Vollers (2001)
"Similar figures were drawn with the Spiro graph. They may have been symbols for
aerospace technology with orbit trajectories of sputniks and capsules. ..."
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