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Birth of the Space Age

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Birth of the Space Age
Image credit: NASA

Uploader comment: History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. About the size of a beach ball and weighing about 184 pounds, it took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.


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