{"id":1753,"date":"2021-06-11T17:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:37:27","slug":"sputnik-crisis-and-vanguard-space-race-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik Crisis and Vanguard &#8211; Space Race 1957 | Yvan Figueiras"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"580\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sputnik Crisis y Vanguard - Carrera Espacial 1957\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mq4Rua9exHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The soviet success in putting not one, but satellites in earth orbit in less than a month started a general anxiety among US citizens. It looked as in any moment a nuclear bomb could fall over their heads. Anyway, there was an apparent huge gap in military technology between both countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, no. Both countries where paired. In fact Wernher von Braun&#8217;s and his team had been prohibited to attempt to launch any satellite, in spite of having the capabilities to do so a year before Sputnik was flown. But nothing stopped the fear, fueled by a disinformed and sensationalistic media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eisenhower&#8217;s answer was to be the Vanguard, a satellite\/rocket civil project meant to show US citizes that their country was up to the challenge. The problem was that it all blew up to the sky&#8230; literally.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soviet success in putting not one, but satellites in earth orbit in less than a month started a general anxiety among US citizens. It looked as in any moment a nuclear bomb could fall over their heads. Anyway, there was an apparent huge gap in military technology between both countries&#8230; Well, no. Both countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videoeng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvan.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}