# David Hoffman shares his Sputnik mania

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 w

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: War, Education, Science, Space, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/DavidHoffman_2007)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/DavidHoffman_2007?play=1)