1. It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik. 它延续了1961年由奥斯卡计划开始的行动。奥斯卡计划是一个总部设在美国的组织，在人造卫星“斯普特尼克”之后仅四年就制造并发射了第一颗非政府卫星。
2. The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik. 第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的，目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。
3. In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 into outer space. 前苏联于1957年发射了“伴侣1号”人造外星到了外太空。
4. Sputnik 2 put a dog into space. 史泼尼克卫星2号带了一只狗到太空中。
5. A new Sputnik moment might change their minds. 一个新的斯普特尼克时刻可能会改变他们的想法。
