I thought it might be of interest to "boomer" archaeologists (born around 
1950 or earlier ... there's quite a few of us older guys still around here) 
who have worked on Cold War military sites and collections (e.g., our 
archaeology lab at the University of North Texas was formerly a Nike missle 
base ... our archaeological collections were actually curated in the old 
missle silos ... we simply drove our vehicles onto the elevators that 
formerly were used to rise-and-lower the missles to load-and-unload boxes of 
artifacts at the bottom of the silos) ... the launch of Sputnik was really a 
significant event in all of our lives, and changed our (your) whole world. 
It's launch marked the beginning of the Cold War. It didn't seem seemly to 
let the 50th anniversary of such a world-altering event pass un-noted.

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