The successfully launch of Sputnik satellite was to ignite the American issues of the missile gap, the Sputnik crisis and the space race.The Sputnik crisis can bee defined as a period in the late 1950's that was marked by both public fear and uncertainty in the United States in the wake of the successfully launch of Sputnik 1 and a perceived technological gap between the two superpowers. This also fuled more generalised fears concering the arms race to