Parenthetically, anyone my age remembers the another response to Sputnik - a million kids sticking tooth picks into Styrofoam balls and sprinkling them with glitter. Every Christmas tree that year had a Sputnik ornament proudly placed on it.
Interesting little personnel story. I was about 10 years old when Sputnik went up. My older brother was a ham radio operator and he found out what band it was broadcasting on. I recall him and I sitting in his bed room listening to it go BEEP --- BEEP --- BEEP as it passed over every 90 minutes or so. At night we would go out side and you could see it pass.
50 years later almost to the day on the anniversary of the Sputnik launch, I was having a satellite dish mounted on my roof so I could have 500 or what ever useless channels of TV at my command. I sat there and remembered listening to that BEEP -- BEEP --- BEEP on that old Heath Kit vacuum tube receiver and was kind of humbled at the technology advances in just my lifetime.
Maybe your family did, but my military family and our military neighbors who lived on Chanute AFB had no part of that!
I'll guar-on-tee that there wasn't one at my house.