Use "sputnik" in a sentence

1. We hadn’t quite go to Sputnik, but there

2. when it became clear through the launching of the space shuttle Sputnik by the then USSR that our

3. On October 1, 1958, just short of a year after Sputnik 1 was cast into space, NASA officially began to blueprint the nation’s space program

4. The Americans were pretty sure they were leading until, in 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik, the world’s first communications satellite

5. The Americans were still hyperventilating when the Russians launched Sputnik 2, with a little dog called Laika onboard who could wave her tail down to the panicking Americans

6. Who’d have thought, when the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, that satellite technology and humankind’s conquest of space would end up with a little box in your car telling you to turn right at the next junction? Sputnik was a propaganda triumph for the Russians and certainly put the Americans’ noses out of joint until they could start launching their own satellites