The reaction of the US government to the Sputnik launch was rather subdued because their spy planes had already been monitoring the Soviet developments on the satellite launch.
What is the Sputnik launch?
The first artificial satellite launch was performed by the Soviet Union on 1957 to orbit Earth.
The launch was not a suprise to U.S. government because their spy planes had already been monitoring the Soviet developments on the satellite launch.
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