A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago

There have been many milestones of note in the story of the Space Age, but the launch of the USSR’s Sputnik 1 satellite is the major breakthrough that started it all. It was the first human-made object to get up into space and stay in orbit, having blasted off on October 4, 1957, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in current-day Kazakhstan. It was a technological leap that no one outside the Soviet…

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A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago

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