History of Space Exploration: Chapter 3, Exercise 2 — Possible Solution ====================================================================== QUALIFICATION The Sputnik and crisis articles describe media alarm and elite concern, but Samuel Lubell found "no evidence at all of any panic or hysteria" in the public. The crisis article reports researchers arguing it was manufactured. Eisenhower said it did not raise his apprehensions "one iota". REWRITE "Some commentators and politicians reacted with alarm, while one analyst found no evidence of public panic."