10 Fascinating 60th Anniversary Facts About Sputnik 1

On October 4, 1957, 60 years ago yesterday, the Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch of the first artificial satellite. The small sphere, transmitting a “bleep-bleep” radio signal, caused near panic in the minds of some Americans as they visualized Russian atom bombs in orbit. It sent the US government and armed forces into a frenzy of activity. They had been put in the unusual position of trying to catch up with Soviet technology. Sputnik 1 fired the starting gun on what soon became known as the Space Race.
As is often the case, this event came about as much through chance as by any careful planning. If a few different choices had been made by either the Soviet Union or the United States, the history books could have looked very different.

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