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Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite

Roger D. Launius, Editor ; John M. Logsdon, Editor ; Robert W. Smith, Editor | [S.l.] : Harwood Academic Pub. | Studies in the History of science, technology and medicine | 2000

On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit. This 184-pound, basketball-sized sphere ushered in the era of the space race. At the height of the Cold War and several months into the Int[...]

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