Review – Sputnik Mania

Living in the United States during that brief period of Soviet technological advantage must have been a really interesting experience. As is not exactly unusual with History Channel productions, the treatment of the subject at hand was too superficial. The celebrity-narrated presentation included a few interesting facts here and there, but for the most part it was the story most folks already know (or could have learned in five minutes from Wikipedia) made shiny by archival footage and slick editing. Mildly amusing