Space: The First Step... (50 Years of Space Age) - Softcover

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Right after completing the first revolution of the first artificial satellite TASS news agency announced “…The first Sputnik was successfully launched in the USSR on October 4, 1957. By preliminary data, the rocket vehicle has provided Sputnik with necessary orbital speed, about 8000 metres per second. Now Sputnik gyrates on elliptic trajectories round the Earth, and its flight can be observed at dawn and sunset by means of elementary optical instruments (field-glasses, telescopes, etc)…” It seemed that the entire world observed small bright point, floating in the night sky fifty years ago, listened to simple signals ’beep-beep’, knowing that those sounds were sent by a new celestial body.

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