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You are fucking high if you think that sputnik was a "scientific endeavour".
The only reason the Soviet Union agreed to launch sputnik was because of the perceived threat it made to the west in the dominance of Soviet rocket technology.
And the only reason the US took up the challenge was because of the "missile gap" that was spun by the military industrial complex.
TIL rocket science isn't science.
By that logic the atomic bomb wasn't nuclear physics because its purpose was as a weapon and not for the advancement of scientific knowledge.