Sputnik 1957 - Memories of an Old Timer

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Author - E. Stuhlinger

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JBIS Volume # - 52

Page # - 235-238

Year - 1999

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JBIS Reference Code # - 1999.52.235

Number of Pages - 4

[edit] Abstract

While American plans for a small satellite, to be launched as an IGY project, met with some rough sailing, Russian plans for a larger satellite proceeded more rapidly under the hands of Sergei Korolev, the Russian counterpart to America's Wernher von Braun. Held up because scientific instruments were not ready, Korolev quickly built a smaller satellite and launched it as Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, followed by Sputnik 2 in November, and by America's Explorer 1 in January 1958. Russia's success with Sputnik 1 set off an unprecedented surge of interest and activity in space technology and space sciences worldwide.


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