Sputnik – 50th Anniversary
Posted in Current Events on Oct 04, 2007
Today is the 50th anniversary of the launching of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite launched into genocentric orbit. It fueled a lot of fear in the U.S. because they feared the USSR could spy on them because Sputnik was visible with the naked eye. It was a real crisis and really got the Space Race going and fueled the fire of the Cold War.
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