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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
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
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
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
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
Spaceborne observation of the planet has come a long way since Flopnik.

Popular Science 2008
Thanks to Flopnik, your town is on weather. com, your grocery store on Google Maps.

Popular Science 2008
But Vanguard would not see success until spring 1958 and its post-Sputnik failures generated headlines like "Dudnik," Flopnik "and" Kaputnik. "

Gerald Bracey: The Great Big Engine That Didn't 2008