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Sputnik 1 (/ ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k, ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program .
Bond shoots him while he is driving a train, causing it to derail and crash. From Russia, with Love: Rosa Klebb: Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine. Bond kills SMERSH assassin Grant and foils the booby trap plot, but is nearly killed by Klebb with a poisoned shoe blade.
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's 1959 seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger, and the 1964 film it inspired (the third in the James Bond series).
Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations. Q is the head of Q Branch (later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service charged with oversight of top secret field technologies.
That was the most immediate threat that Sputnik 1 posed. The United States, a land with a history of geographical security from European wars because of its distance, suddenly seemed vulnerable. A contributing factor to the Sputnik crisis was that the Soviets had not released a photograph of the satellite for five days after the launch. [7]
This is AI’s Sputnik moment, and it underscores why the incoming administration must wrestle with this issue, which will shape the future. Adversaries such as Vladamir Putin salivate at the ...
Sputnik, a former Soviet magazine published in multiple languages Sputnik Monthly Digest, the English language edition of Спутник; Sputnik (news agency), a news agency operated by the Russian government; Sputnik (radio station), a public German radio station; Radio Sputnik (disambiguation)
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...