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Science 5 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5847, pp. 53 - 54
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149322
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Perspectives

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Sputnik and Satellite Astronomy

Giovanni F. Bignami

After Sputnik, European researchers emphasized basic research over politics and made important discoveries in space-based astronomy.

The author is at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, 27100 Pavia, Italy. E-mail: gfb{at}lambrate.inaf.it

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