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"Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble", from nature.com
Satellite debris could cancel Hubble repair mission The AstroDyke 2009
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"Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble", from nature.com
Archive 2009-02-01 The AstroDyke 2009
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This is nothing new: the US's first attempt at a spacecraft, Vanguard TV3, exploded on the launchpad, earning such ignominious names as "Flopnik" and "Kaputnik".
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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No one was killed, but the disaster—dubbed by the press as “Flopnik” and “Kaputnik”—forced President Dwight D.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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No one was killed, but the disaster—dubbed by the press as “Flopnik” and “Kaputnik”—forced President Dwight D.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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No one was killed, but the disaster—dubbed by the press as “Flopnik” and “Kaputnik”—forced President Dwight D.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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No one was killed, but the disaster—dubbed by the press as “Flopnik” and “Kaputnik”—forced President Dwight D.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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In light of the passing of brilliant Mad cartoonist Dave Berg last week, I hope you'll all join us in revisiting bOING bOING contributor Terre Thaemlitz's classic treatise "How MAD's Dave Berg and Roger Kaputnik Introduced Me to Post-Modernity."
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Anyway one can hope we make it that far and the rest of the world does too rather than Kaputnik for all.
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But Vanguard would not see success until spring 1958 and its post-Sputnik failures generated headlines like "Dudnik," Flopnik "and" Kaputnik. "
hernesheir commented on the word Kaputnik
See also Examples for Dudnik and Flopnik.
February 15, 2014