"in a panic" . "atmosphere of urgency" . . "Russian Sputnik launch" . "Sputnik crisis" . "feared" . . "alarms the United States government" . "Sputnik moment" . "shocked" . "post-Sputnik" . . . "shocked the American public" . . "Sputnik Crisis" . "public response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik" . "Sputnik shock" . . "Sputnik" . . "crisis of confidence" . . "Sputnik crisis" . . "technology gap" . "aftermath" . "public concern over a \\\"science gap\\\"" . "successful propaganda coup" . .