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I, for one, am glad that it lit a fire under our elected representatives. One of the direct results of the Soyuz launch (1957) was that the U.S. Department of Defense started pumping money into the educational system's little project known at the time as the ARPANet (1962) ... turning it into the DARPANet ... and later known as the Internet. Without the Space Race, we'd probably still be using typewriters and fax machines, and I never would have gotten the opportunity to meet so many nice people, like those here.
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