David Hoffman shares his Sputnik mania

About this film

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

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks, TED2007, TED, Talks, education, history, math, politics, science, short talk, space, technology, war, 2007

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