Should Have Given Up after 'He Was an Aircraft'

Chick #1: Hey! Do you know Stanley?
Chick #2: Stanley...? No.
Chick #1: You know -- he was an aircraft!
Chick #2: What?
Chick #1: That the Russians put into space!
Chick #2: You mean... Sputnik?
Chick #1: Stanley, Sputnik, whatever...

--Union Square