Sputnik's legacy behind the Iron Curtain From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 9, 2007| Author: physicist Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.; Vasili Kharchenko is professor of physics at theUniversity of Connecticut; Vasili Kharchenko | Copyright 2007 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

FIFTY YEARS ago the skies were opened for me and became a part of my world. It was done by the first Sputnik, a small metallic ball rotating around Earth. Many people have described how Sputnik changed the United States. I, a former Russian scientist now living in the United States, would like to share a vision of the Sputnik impact from the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Sputnik dramatically affected the generation of my parents, definitely shaped me and my friends' careers, and even...

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