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The size of a beach ball at roughly 23 inches in diameter, it orbited the Earth in around 98 minutes on Oct. 4, 1957 |
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TOUGH SCIENCE |
2023-05-22 |
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The Space Age began in 1957 when Russia launched this satellite |
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SPACE SCIENCE |
2008-06-12 |
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Alfred Lovell's Jodrell Bank radio telescope was finished in 1957 just in time to track this 1st artificial satellite |
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MEN OF SCIENCE |
2000-09-11 |
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K. Tsiolkovsky, who predicted space travel, would have been 100 when this was launched in October 1957 |
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RUSSIAN SCIENCE |
1995-01-24 |
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After 1,400 orbits it fell back to Earth January 4, 1958 & burned up |
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SCIENCE |
1993-06-28 |
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