Sputnik used in a sentence

Sputnik in a sentence as a noun

Going from sputnik in 1957 to the moon landing in 1969, I can see how someone in the 70s might think we'd have space colonies by 2012.

Bodhi and Mint both installed fine, newer versions included the touchpad kernel updates from the main Ubuntu distribution so it worked out the box. I did end up installing the sputnik ppa and using that kernel to keep the brightness keys working.