Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige - Yanek Mieczkowski - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=uxP_RbYt-RwC&pg=PA190#v=onepage

In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him…