Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit in October 1957 and its
beeps could be heard anywhere in the word with a short-wave radio.
What effect do you think hearing the "beeps" had on Americans?

what do you                                                                                                                                              

hello,

  i would that it was because no matter how hard people worked everyone would be paid the same, witch it was a that the russian to rule.

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the answer is 250 percent.