1·The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.
第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的，目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。
2·Ever since Russia's launch of Sputnik I in the late 1950s, the United States has realized the need to improve the teaching of mathematics in the public schools.
自从俄罗斯在50年代后期发射了人造卫星之后，美国意识到在公立学校提升数学教育的需求。