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Sputnik mania

David Hoffman · TED

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Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math education around the world.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2007
Speaker
David Hoffman
Year
2007
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Astronomy and space, History, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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