Sputnik Launced the Start of the Space Race

Posted on October 4, 2018 by P Hodkinson

On this day of 4 October back in 1957, the first manmade object punched its way through Earth atmosphere. Many on the ground believed they could see the Sputnik satellite in the night sky. However, what they probably saw was the exhausted shell of the R-7 rocket that delivered it into orbit…
https://www.popularmechanics.com/…/a284…/r-7-rocket-sputnik/

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