Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the world's first space satellite. It was successfully launched into space by a team of Russian scientists on October 4, 1957, from the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The name o...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
SPACE EXPLORATION (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Oct. 11)
In 1957, the world...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE LEGACY OF SPUTNIK (The New York Times, New York)
Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched a small sphere
into space that coul...
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Today is Thursday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2007. There are 88 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched ...
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Moscow (dpa) - The shock in the West was deep when the bleeping
from Sputnik 1 was able to be picked up from space by simple radios
worldwide 50 years ago.
Th...
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Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory — a much bigger satellite carrying a mongrel dog called La...
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Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory — a much bigger satellite carrying a mongrel dog called La...
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Sputnik 1
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