Happy 50th Anniversary, Sputnik!
October 4th, 2007
Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age
(Queue the theme from 2001 A Space Odyssey)
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. Read more from NASA…
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