You have to understand, nothing like that had ever been done before, and every night the TV news would tell people when and where to look for Sputnik going overhead. The western world shit it's pants because if the Russinas could put a satellite over every country on Earth, could they also put weapons on one? Suddenly the entire world was vulnerable, and the Soviet Union at the time made no bones about their desire to make the world communist by any means necessary. Scary times
Wow, I wish I was around back then to see the Soviet space pioneers launch Sputnik. What an exciting time it must have been. In comparison, aside from the growth of the world wide web, most of the stuff being developed today is just faster more mobile than their predecessors (for example, mobile phones compared to land line phones, ipods compared to walkmans...) but no real exciting event, just the boring constant development of plastic consumer crap that becomes obsolete quickly.
53 years ago today Sputnik was launched and we entered the space age and it all began with that basket ball sized satellite named Sputnik if it wasn't for Sputnik we would not be in space right now and we would not be friends (some what) with the Russians on the ISS. Thank You Sputnik for getting the world into space.
@jasper5554 F-16 is an amazingly potent jet considering it looks like a toy when you're standing next to it. The avionics even sound more like an old video game than a war machine.
Sure it was tense at times but we went from propellers to man on the moon in something like 20 years!
Without the cold war it would take humanity 200 years to make that kind of progress.
Infact the modern world as we know it is not a result of capitalism but the intense fight for survival of two super capable vital nations intenet,silicon chips,commercial aircraft,satelites etc etc are all due to this..We didn't have a financialized funny money economy back then!
i'm sorry, but all you russians claiming that this was one of the most important moments in history should really reevaluate your thinking...a basketball sized piece of metal with a radio wave emitter was sent into space in an attempt by the Soviet's to scare U.S. citizens...a fifth grader with a little gasoline and a small balloon could have done the same thing...instead of wasting your time with propaganda tactics, why don't you try and fix the glaring problems in your society?
@Blahblobify As much as I love the Saturn V, the N-1 was more powerful and a much more ambitious and interesting concept from an engineering perspective. Look at the thrust pattern, perfectly straight, no massive diverging trail of wasted fire, it was really a beautiful concept but actually so powerful it tore itself apart, I think from acoustic shock waves that they couldn't model with computers at the time. The engines were also made by a jet company with no prior experience in rockets...
Wrong....the N1 was not "more powerful", quite the contrary, the N1 only had HALF the payload capability of getting something to the moon, the Saturn V could get a 100,000 lb payload to lunar orbit, the N1, if it even worked, could only get 52,000 lbs there. It's claimed the N1 was more powerful because it had more thrust on it's first stage, but that is misleading, the Saturn V shit all over the N1, and it worked.
@Blahblobify The Saturn used hydrogen as fuel, the N1 used Kerosene, i think that was the main reason for the payload difference. The power I was referring to was indeed the liftoff thrust, which N1 had more of. Saturn was a more practical rocket but US had the experience with hydrogen, USSR had a fight over whether to use hypergolics or kerosene and that was what killed their program plain and simple. The rocket engine company refused to use kerosene, so a jet company made new engines, boom!
Actually the 1st stage of the Saturn used the same fuel as the N1, refined kerosene, it's second and third stages used hydrogen. The n1 used kerosene on all 3 stages but it was a moot point since the first stage always blew up LOL.
@Blahblobify Thanks, you're right, I was mistaken about that. Hmmm, does the difference in fuel account for all the difference in payload or was the US using flubber for o-rings. In the final N1 launch the 1st stage didn't explode, it shut down 6 seconds early, and the range safety officer destroyed the rocket. They decided afterward if he had just allowed staging to proceed at that point the mission could have succeeded. No doubt he was made to collect every piece from the crash before Siberia.
@HungarianKnight Actully the United states was more than capable at the time to beat the USSR, the US had the brilliant Wherner Von Braun and his team at Huntsville. The Hunstville team were ex Nazi V-2 rocket engineers so thus the US had the brain power. Wherner's team had built a rocket with the capability to get an object into space, but the hunstville team was put on hold because they were told the US Navy would be the first ones to send a sattilite. Buracracy prevented the US from space 1st
2 After several months of research, I am safe to say that US was indeed ready to launch a satellite before the USSR. But bureaucratic system of the USA came in the way, giving Sergei Korolev and his team the time to launch.
@ZOLTAR802 Well, look up the USSR moon program, that was utterly destroyed by bureacracy, it's not only the US that suffered from that. It's really surprising that in a dictatorship they couldn't get their companies to cooperate, the leaders of the companies were allowed to remain at odds with each other, one refused to accept the government's decision (!), and thereby killed their chances of going to the moon. Their moon program was also on hold for a long time to make way for other priorities.
@brusso95 It was more symbolic than a technological feat. I look at it not as Russian achievement, but a human achievement, as I look at the moon landings.
A "basketabll sized piece of metal" needed a rocket, deep math calculations, lots of investigation and hundreds of people resolving little problems like fuel valves and heat sensors!!!
Of course after it is done by some, other can do it with no more work.
And if you knew something about phisics you would know that a ballon can never enter orbit!
i cannot believe how evil spirited people are sometimes. i applaude all these brave souls whether russian , american, whatever, for being pioneers in the space race. as i read the comments from these small minded folks i wonder what they have done to improve our world. I grew up in those times and there were ligitimate fears but wheres the anger coming from.
i cannot believe how evil spirited people are sometimes. i applaude all these brave souls whether russian , american, whatever, for being pioneers in the space race. as i read the comments from these small minded folks i wonder what they have done to improve our world. I grew up in those times and there were ligitimate fears but wheres the anger coming from.
Fuck this. Russia is fucking evil. They faked the Sputnik launch because they wanted to escalate the cold war and provoke the U.S. into attacking. Then they could play the victim, just like always. Looks like it didn't work and NASA is stronger than ever.
@brendanmohare hahaha you say Russians faked the sputnik hahahaha. you don't even trust your country (the us) haha you don't even believe that they reach the moon fukin hollywood made that movie piece of shit that the nasa ordered them to do so the us appears as the big shit hahaha loooooseeerrrrs. statistics show that 3 out of 5 people born in the us do not believe the us reached the moon. i don't use the word american because i'll be including , colombians, mexican,s angentina, brazil, etc.
@Devokonstai you must be an agent of Smersh, Spektra, or the Communazionistaliban world conspiracy well known as the Axis of Evil - by their president himself!!!! Thank God they bring us napalm, preventive attacks, sitcoms, preachers and junk food to save our liberty
@Devokonstai you must be an agent of Smersh, Spektra, or the Communazionistaliban world conspiracy well known as the Axis of Evil - by their president himself!!!! Thank God they bring us napalm, preventive attacks, sitcoms, preachers and junk food to save our liberty
When the Americans went into space they noticed their pens did not work because of the lack of gravity so they spent millions into designing a pen that would work in space, when it came to the Russians they just took a pencil.
@serbin16m That's a common misconception. Paul Fisher funded the invention of the "space-pen" privately, and later sold it to NASA (and the USSR). Before that both programs used pencils.
One of the most important moments in human history has several less hundred fucking MILLION views than Justin beiber. fuck you world! Mr.vassilev doesn't even have his own wiki page!
@mrvendetor It's time for some people to finally realize the cold war is over, and start thinking more like human beings sharing the same planet instead of nation-vs-nation in every single thing. Western people ignore so much human achievement outside their own political box. Remember when China became the 3rd country to have people in space? There wasn't one person in my college who even knew or cared at all, and that was a major event in human history! Sputnik and Gagarin were huge events.
@mrvendetor You're absolutely right, it is a real shame. I find the dialouge/transcript from Vassilev's diary, a number of words, moving, inspiring, haunting, and powerful just to name a few. I find Justian Beiber annoying and a few other choice words that i'm not going to say.
moreover the things which the soviets did first were important in scientific purposes and also important in communications, better rockets, transports facilities, better communications for consumers and ordinary people....not landing on the moon(which only has some propoganda uses and some scietific uses whcih doesnot generate anything in return other than waste of time and money)
we see americans in all those space movies showing themselves as space nerds and the space leaders, the soviets are really the leaders. first artificial sat, first animal in space, first man in space, first lunar object to land on moon, first object to land and communicate from another planet,First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity, First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1 on the Moon. First space station, Salyut 1,first man to walk in space etc
Yeah they had all the firsts until 1968 when the Americans passed them up. Then they sucked hind tit while the US went to the moon 6 times and the Russians big N1 rocket did nothing but blow up every time they launched it and they realized they couldn't go to the moon. Wahhh wahhhh wahhhh poor russians.
long live the country of the red flag which is call the soviet union from Colombia a country who still has your warfare legacy in it (Colombian armed conflict)
@Zombiestewstudios Think of it! The first SATELLITE!! This video was pretty terrible, there are better clips of the launch, but it should be included in the sample videos of every mobile phone that makes calls farther than a land network can reach. The first satellite? It's like the first time bread was baked, or the first time a wheel was turned. But most people utterly ignore the significance of the event just because it was THEM that did it, not US. All of life has to be a frappin' war?!
as the Soviet Union began to tick off objectives on their check list of acheivments the united states ran out of gas and just went straight for the moon. The Space Race would have been re-named something like - get a person on the moon, race.
The American's were significantly less technologically advanced, because the Soviets could already get into space and do manned missions in space and even rover landings on the moon. and that was 10 years before the apollo11
@TeddyFilmz Moon landing was fake, Americans were 10 years behind Soviets, but all of a sudden they went for a moon and did it. Ridiculous and fake. I am not Russian or American, so i don't give a shit who gets where first, but to me it is obvious, 2+2 =4 not 5
@Globox822 Don't you think the Russians, who were tracking the whole thing themselves, would have found out and blown the whistle by now considering how important it was?
@nyyankees4296 plus there is no final finish line gimmick to begin with.
The Soviet's were thinking of ways to maximize efficiency in their satellites before the American's even got successful missions completed of basic space travel.
The soviets mastered everything in space, the only reason they did not put a man on the moon is because there would be no strategical advantage to it other than putting a patriotic flag into the moon. They were stretched as it was with other lunar missions!
The reason the russians didn't put a man on the moon was because they couldn't. Their N1 rocket blew up every time it was launched and had 2/3 the payload capacity of the Saturn V, it was questionable whether it could put something to the moon big enough to get back anyway. By then they had lost, so they concentrated on orbiting the earth some more......and some more......and some more....LOLOLOL
@TheJomogogo OK, moon race was won and lost but it was the stupidest waste of time and money. What good is going the moon? A space station is not even much use, satellites are useful. Now they're talking about going to asteroids and Mars, why? Buy everyone medical insurance for that money, we don't need more space telescopes, space probes, or to go beyond low Earth orbit. Solve Earth problems first. The stupidest race ever was the moon race!
@MrSaturdayNight7 this was the first time man had EVER touched space in history, and i hate to break into your small confined world, but Russia also launched the first creature and man into space. We also landed the first machines on Mars, venus and the moon. But despite all that apollo eleven is more important, go back to McDonalds
@DireWeevil the only reason many scientists came to US is they feared stalin. If their research doesnt produce then they feared of execution. The main brains behind nazi rocket science, Von Braun surrendered to americans for same reason. Only few went to russia.It was all coz of Korolyev that soviets could strike frist and hard at americans.Americans buy brains from others while soviets do not.
Wait a toothless Brit or American redneck will claim it was a HOAX ! Yes a HOAX ,because they had trouble finding their A holes while a SLAVIC nation was exploring space ! LOL
Yes the truth hurts. And it is ALL GOOD.
The radio signals heard on the ground...an ILLUSION. Yes , desperate toothless inbreds and redneck inbreds hate SLAVIC nations for being better.
Nikola Tesla , who is that? Never existed a HOAX too.
@bsod4u2 What the hell are you talking about? So far as I know there is not conspiracy theory that claims sputnik was a hoax (other than those who belief the moon landing was one too) In any case, if either conspiracy theory were true, the governments of both Russia and the United States would have loudly proclaimed each other as frauds.
@DireWeevil A few crooked tooth inbred english bastards try hard even releasing so called "documentaries" ! They spit on what they could never achieve!
Just type "Yuri Gagarin was never in space" and also check who the poster is and from where this liar is.
@kamikaze6000 i know, it was a triumph of human ingenuity. but what the US military realized is that the soviets had something capable delivering a weapon of mass destruction to the US without being flown over in a plane
@TheJomogogo well the huge idea was that the soviets could put a WMD on american soil and there was nothing they could do about it. i keep hearing stories about how people were afaraid the soviets would put "death rays" on the moon.
America, europe, wherever. I remember back then the nightly news stations would carry a "sputnik watch" and tell us when to look for it, it was in a very visible super low orbit. People would go out and see it passing over and talk about WTF are they gonna do with that?
@herbrampe it was the 50's! alien paranoia, drive in movie theatres, hyrdogen bomb fears, and yet I grow up in a decade where all we know is iPods. Boring!
@Buliderman9 The "sputnik" in russian means "satellite". Sergei Korolev named it. ( The leader of soviet space programme, who also spent first man into the space ).
It seems nobody like north americans, except north americans (not Mexicans). But in fact we all speak english, not portuguese, spanish, russian, french, etc.
People say that the US won the space race due to their landings on the moon but truly it was the USSR that won since it was the space race so the first into space won which was USSR
@killerofdoom2435 Russia never put a man on the moon. Big difference in achievement there. And not just one man; 12. But be that as it may, we still need to embrace the spirit of the crew of Apollo 11; Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. They not only left a United States flag on the moon with a plaque, they also left medals honoring two Soviet cosmonauts; Vladimir Komarov and Yuri Gagarin.
The space race has done more to unite us than any other endeavor, IMHO.
Sputnik 1 looks like the enclave eye bots from fallout 3
mcpottypants9 1 month ago
@mcpottypants9 It actully does haha. Weird isn't it! O.o
Unboxermail 4 weeks ago
@mcpottypants9 LOL that was the first thing that came to my mind when i first saw it
antho3001 6 days ago
although I wish that the USA would have launched the first space vehicle, Sputnik was a major accomplishment for the human race
physicskid1 1 month ago
so they wasted a lot of time just to let people on earth hear beep beep ??
hoangkim1992 1 month ago
@hoangkim1992 ei dickhead it was 1958
ElassonaG13 1 month ago
@hoangkim1992
You have to understand, nothing like that had ever been done before, and every night the TV news would tell people when and where to look for Sputnik going overhead. The western world shit it's pants because if the Russinas could put a satellite over every country on Earth, could they also put weapons on one? Suddenly the entire world was vulnerable, and the Soviet Union at the time made no bones about their desire to make the world communist by any means necessary. Scary times
Blahblobify 1 month ago
@hoangkim1992 that was FIRST thing in space launched by Humans
eldrotto 4 weeks ago
Wow, I wish I was around back then to see the Soviet space pioneers launch Sputnik. What an exciting time it must have been. In comparison, aside from the growth of the world wide web, most of the stuff being developed today is just faster more mobile than their predecessors (for example, mobile phones compared to land line phones, ipods compared to walkmans...) but no real exciting event, just the boring constant development of plastic consumer crap that becomes obsolete quickly.
BumbleDum 2 months ago
all because of the german mind.
brothachiken023 2 months ago
10 peoples are americans...
jcavaletto708 2 months ago
in soviet russia rocket launches you!
TheJaaysog 3 months ago
@TheJaaysog in democratic americunt people payd to Russia for space launches
mphet26 3 months ago
lol toy story sez.... SPUT NIK the cosmonauts went up the cowboys went down lol
YouGotBud 3 months ago
53 years ago today Sputnik was launched and we entered the space age and it all began with that basket ball sized satellite named Sputnik if it wasn't for Sputnik we would not be in space right now and we would not be friends (some what) with the Russians on the ISS. Thank You Sputnik for getting the world into space.
geomodelrailroader 3 months ago
@geomodelrailroader the period key is next to the comma
tapetalflipper0 2 months ago
@tapetalflipper0 LOL
geomodelrailroader 2 months ago
Incredible moment in history
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bitscolumn 4 months ago 15
cute dude at 0:41
hep2jive 4 months ago
fantastic
admiralPs 4 months ago
I remember! It was awsome!
chrislisah 4 months ago
@malamagr I thought the USSR didnt have companies being a communism, also the tragic death of Sergie Korolov put the final nail in the coffin.
ZOLTAR802 4 months ago
@jasper5554 F-16 is an amazingly potent jet considering it looks like a toy when you're standing next to it. The avionics even sound more like an old video game than a war machine.
malamagr 4 months ago
@ZOLTAR802 Have you ever heard of Sergei Korolev...?
Caocanzio 5 months ago
@Caocanzio I have and read several books concerning his life and career.
ZOLTAR802 4 months ago
I found Sputnik by the Soilder on TF2 saying it,
tf2hat 5 months ago
Glory days of the space exploration...
I love it
adenketr 6 months ago
We need another cold war!
Sure it was tense at times but we went from propellers to man on the moon in something like 20 years!
Without the cold war it would take humanity 200 years to make that kind of progress.
Infact the modern world as we know it is not a result of capitalism but the intense fight for survival of two super capable vital nations intenet,silicon chips,commercial aircraft,satelites etc etc are all due to this..We didn't have a financialized funny money economy back then!
krenim786 6 months ago
October Sky anyone?
the1randomdud3 6 months ago
and thus the INTERNET IS BORN wwww
sparky4444444444444 7 months ago
Its funny how russians think their country is a force LOL
crazyhorse1369 7 months ago
i'm sorry, but all you russians claiming that this was one of the most important moments in history should really reevaluate your thinking...a basketball sized piece of metal with a radio wave emitter was sent into space in an attempt by the Soviet's to scare U.S. citizens...a fifth grader with a little gasoline and a small balloon could have done the same thing...instead of wasting your time with propaganda tactics, why don't you try and fix the glaring problems in your society?
brusso95 7 months ago
@brusso95
If it was such an unimportant event, why didn't you Yanks do it in the first place?
Oh, whait... you didn't have the technology. Your whole rocketry was stolen via industrial espionage from the USSR!
HungarianKnight 6 months ago
@HungarianKnight AND BEFORE THAT IT WAS STOLEN FROM GERMANY BY RUSSIA AND USA XD
SugarRainer 6 months ago
@HungarianKnight
LOL they didn't steal any rocket secrets from russia the Saturn V crapped all over the russian N-1 which blew up every time it was launched.
Blahblobify 6 months ago
@Blahblobify As much as I love the Saturn V, the N-1 was more powerful and a much more ambitious and interesting concept from an engineering perspective. Look at the thrust pattern, perfectly straight, no massive diverging trail of wasted fire, it was really a beautiful concept but actually so powerful it tore itself apart, I think from acoustic shock waves that they couldn't model with computers at the time. The engines were also made by a jet company with no prior experience in rockets...
malamagr 4 months ago
@malamagr
Wrong....the N1 was not "more powerful", quite the contrary, the N1 only had HALF the payload capability of getting something to the moon, the Saturn V could get a 100,000 lb payload to lunar orbit, the N1, if it even worked, could only get 52,000 lbs there. It's claimed the N1 was more powerful because it had more thrust on it's first stage, but that is misleading, the Saturn V shit all over the N1, and it worked.
Blahblobify 4 months ago
@Blahblobify The Saturn used hydrogen as fuel, the N1 used Kerosene, i think that was the main reason for the payload difference. The power I was referring to was indeed the liftoff thrust, which N1 had more of. Saturn was a more practical rocket but US had the experience with hydrogen, USSR had a fight over whether to use hypergolics or kerosene and that was what killed their program plain and simple. The rocket engine company refused to use kerosene, so a jet company made new engines, boom!
malamagr 4 months ago
@malamagr
Actually the 1st stage of the Saturn used the same fuel as the N1, refined kerosene, it's second and third stages used hydrogen. The n1 used kerosene on all 3 stages but it was a moot point since the first stage always blew up LOL.
Blahblobify 4 months ago
@Blahblobify Thanks, you're right, I was mistaken about that. Hmmm, does the difference in fuel account for all the difference in payload or was the US using flubber for o-rings. In the final N1 launch the 1st stage didn't explode, it shut down 6 seconds early, and the range safety officer destroyed the rocket. They decided afterward if he had just allowed staging to proceed at that point the mission could have succeeded. No doubt he was made to collect every piece from the crash before Siberia.
malamagr 4 months ago
@HungarianKnight Actully the United states was more than capable at the time to beat the USSR, the US had the brilliant Wherner Von Braun and his team at Huntsville. The Hunstville team were ex Nazi V-2 rocket engineers so thus the US had the brain power. Wherner's team had built a rocket with the capability to get an object into space, but the hunstville team was put on hold because they were told the US Navy would be the first ones to send a sattilite. Buracracy prevented the US from space 1st
ZOLTAR802 5 months ago
@ZOLTAR802
The USSR had their own captured scientists. Most of them died, sadly, when an experimental rocket exploded, igniting the facility.
HungarianKnight 5 months ago
@HungarianKnight Was that the Nedlin catastrophe?
ZOLTAR802 4 months ago
@ZOLTAR802 I don't believ that! Now is easy to say that!
Is like when the russians said they were never running for the moon.
The Germans (ops, Von Braun (ops, the Americans)) were beated.
They had teir revange later, but in that day, they were beated, period.
superfrankpt 5 months ago
@superfrankpt 1 learn to spell.
2 After several months of research, I am safe to say that US was indeed ready to launch a satellite before the USSR. But bureaucratic system of the USA came in the way, giving Sergei Korolev and his team the time to launch.
ZOLTAR802 4 months ago
@ZOLTAR802
Are you pointing spelling errors on me!?
So let me point yours too:
“Didnt” is spelled “didn’t”.
“Actully” is spelled “Actually”.
“Sattilite” is spelled “satellite”.
And sorry. Didn't knew this video was about spelling!
Grow up!
superfrankpt 4 months ago
@ZOLTAR802 Well, look up the USSR moon program, that was utterly destroyed by bureacracy, it's not only the US that suffered from that. It's really surprising that in a dictatorship they couldn't get their companies to cooperate, the leaders of the companies were allowed to remain at odds with each other, one refused to accept the government's decision (!), and thereby killed their chances of going to the moon. Their moon program was also on hold for a long time to make way for other priorities.
malamagr 4 months ago
@brusso95 It was more symbolic than a technological feat. I look at it not as Russian achievement, but a human achievement, as I look at the moon landings.
rpsmith014 5 months ago
@brusso95 come on!!! Are you dumb?
A "basketabll sized piece of metal" needed a rocket, deep math calculations, lots of investigation and hundreds of people resolving little problems like fuel valves and heat sensors!!!
Of course after it is done by some, other can do it with no more work.
And if you knew something about phisics you would know that a ballon can never enter orbit!
superfrankpt 5 months ago
RED OCTOBER
mphet26 8 months ago
I like how does Sputnik looked like. Its to bad it came crashing down
MrDopeManFoSho 8 months ago
Sputnik: The first barbecue in space
ADSLISKEWL 8 months ago
I remember it well. I was 17 years old. A wonderful achievement for humankind!!!
Ron
Dlanorepmart 8 months ago
@Dlanorepmart
Do you remember the fear Sputnik caused? The world shit it's pants because Russia had The Bomb and what looked to be an unbeatable delivery system.
Blahblobify 7 months ago
what music did you use in this film?
atm31094 8 months ago
Is this moslty animation I would really like to know.
dalek14mc 8 months ago
Why would anyone dislike this?
OrangeD00D 9 months ago
This is where it all started. RIP the Space Shuttle.
T800System 9 months ago
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i cannot believe how evil spirited people are sometimes. i applaude all these brave souls whether russian , american, whatever, for being pioneers in the space race. as i read the comments from these small minded folks i wonder what they have done to improve our world. I grew up in those times and there were ligitimate fears but wheres the anger coming from.
thunder
RAM110488 9 months ago
i cannot believe how evil spirited people are sometimes. i applaude all these brave souls whether russian , american, whatever, for being pioneers in the space race. as i read the comments from these small minded folks i wonder what they have done to improve our world. I grew up in those times and there were ligitimate fears but wheres the anger coming from.
RAM110488 9 months ago
Interesting, jhowever the launch vehicle depicted is not teh actual Sputnik launcher, but a R-7 intercontinental ICB launcher.
rhomodel 9 months ago
"beep beep beep beep' - Sputnik
TurtleCatJr 9 months ago 25
0:43 what type of clock is it?
milan198611 9 months ago
Fuck this. Russia is fucking evil. They faked the Sputnik launch because they wanted to escalate the cold war and provoke the U.S. into attacking. Then they could play the victim, just like always. Looks like it didn't work and NASA is stronger than ever.
brendanmohare 10 months ago
@brendanmohare hahaha you say Russians faked the sputnik hahahaha. you don't even trust your country (the us) haha you don't even believe that they reach the moon fukin hollywood made that movie piece of shit that the nasa ordered them to do so the us appears as the big shit hahaha loooooseeerrrrs. statistics show that 3 out of 5 people born in the us do not believe the us reached the moon. i don't use the word american because i'll be including , colombians, mexican,s angentina, brazil, etc.
ThePaulinoJP 9 months ago
@brendanmohare Congratulations! You just reminded us of how intelligent the average american yokel is!
Go USA!
Devokonstai 9 months ago 4
@Devokonstai you must be an agent of Smersh, Spektra, or the Communazionistaliban world conspiracy well known as the Axis of Evil - by their president himself!!!! Thank God they bring us napalm, preventive attacks, sitcoms, preachers and junk food to save our liberty
lunacomputacion 9 months ago
@Devokonstai you must be an agent of Smersh, Spektra, or the Communazionistaliban world conspiracy well known as the Axis of Evil - by their president himself!!!! Thank God they bring us napalm, preventive attacks, sitcoms, preachers and junk food to save our liberty
lunacomputacion 9 months ago
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@brendanmohare you are one paranoid person
1Gabrielsson1 8 months ago
using this for my astronomy video im making thanks and the space race began with this launch
TheNathan345 10 months ago
Hahaha americans who thoughed they re most advanced and smartest nation in the world,they shit their pants when Soviets launched Sputnik 1
hophoplord 10 months ago
When the Americans went into space they noticed their pens did not work because of the lack of gravity so they spent millions into designing a pen that would work in space, when it came to the Russians they just took a pencil.
serbin16m 10 months ago
@serbin16m That's a common misconception. Paul Fisher funded the invention of the "space-pen" privately, and later sold it to NASA (and the USSR). Before that both programs used pencils.
Tyrannobeast 9 months ago
CCCP FOR TEH WIN!!! EAT THIS, MERKINS!
hungryasshit 10 months ago
i have to write a paper on sputnik's launch and its due in 4 days. i am so unmotivated to write this paper!
Mystro1989 10 months ago
I am from India, and I congratulate our Russian brothers greatest win, keeping those double-faced bloody Americans in awe!
Sasukekillsitachi 10 months ago
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MrAlexeiGil 10 months ago
One of the most important moments in human history has several less hundred fucking MILLION views than Justin beiber. fuck you world! Mr.vassilev doesn't even have his own wiki page!
mrvendetor 10 months ago 62
@mrvendetor Just a propaganda stunt by a shitty totalitarian state.
ilkkavu 8 months ago
@mrvendetor It's time for some people to finally realize the cold war is over, and start thinking more like human beings sharing the same planet instead of nation-vs-nation in every single thing. Western people ignore so much human achievement outside their own political box. Remember when China became the 3rd country to have people in space? There wasn't one person in my college who even knew or cared at all, and that was a major event in human history! Sputnik and Gagarin were huge events.
malamagr 4 months ago
@mrvendetor You're absolutely right, it is a real shame. I find the dialouge/transcript from Vassilev's diary, a number of words, moving, inspiring, haunting, and powerful just to name a few. I find Justian Beiber annoying and a few other choice words that i'm not going to say.
cozstuart 3 months ago in playlist Inspiring stuff
moreover the things which the soviets did first were important in scientific purposes and also important in communications, better rockets, transports facilities, better communications for consumers and ordinary people....not landing on the moon(which only has some propoganda uses and some scietific uses whcih doesnot generate anything in return other than waste of time and money)
mrvishal1000 10 months ago
we see americans in all those space movies showing themselves as space nerds and the space leaders, the soviets are really the leaders. first artificial sat, first animal in space, first man in space, first lunar object to land on moon, first object to land and communicate from another planet,First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity, First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1 on the Moon. First space station, Salyut 1,first man to walk in space etc
mrvishal1000 10 months ago
@mrvishal1000
Yeah they had all the firsts until 1968 when the Americans passed them up. Then they sucked hind tit while the US went to the moon 6 times and the Russians big N1 rocket did nothing but blow up every time they launched it and they realized they couldn't go to the moon. Wahhh wahhhh wahhhh poor russians.
TheJomogogo 10 months ago
@TheJomogogo Why did Al-Qaeda miss you, man? Damn, the human population's average IQ would have gone up by a few points.
Devokonstai 9 months ago
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Your faked landing on the moon nobody cares. But your real achieving it is not disputed.
algaroon 11 months ago
Who is the first explorer he names before Columbus?
drew335533 11 months ago
@drew335533
Vasco de Gama i think
subatomicapple 11 months ago
Sputnik samples were used in the most recent Post Literate project. Check out or page to hear them in action!
postliterateprojects 11 months ago
long live the country of the red flag which is call the soviet union from Colombia a country who still has your warfare legacy in it (Colombian armed conflict)
ozoomiy 11 months ago
what is Sputnik being used for? like what type of satellite is it?
TreyOConner 11 months ago
Guys the soviet union did all of this! Dont thank the current Russia! They are just using all of the soviet technology and calling it their own...
TheArceus12345 11 months ago
russia put a ball in space killed a dog and we landed on the moon how are they the best :S
halojames1 11 months ago
@halojames1 without these tests, landing a man on the moon would be impossible
gkyy3c 11 months ago
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algaroon 11 months ago
Russia the besssssssssst !!! LONG LIFE RUSSIA RUSSIA rapes usa !!! :D haha
GivenchyParisFr 11 months ago
@jasper5554 Russia fucks usa :D :D admit it jasp
GivenchyParisFr 11 months ago
Speechless
whereswaldo22 11 months ago
The Greatest moment for humankind - the first step in the space.
fantozzi80 11 months ago
hey fucking
pelatgb1992 11 months ago
The Avro Arrow was official rolled out to the public on the very same day.
snake2006 1 year ago
Those were the days...
blqkvo 1 year ago
I just farted, Thumbs up
JestAnoutherPistol 1 year ago
I respect our dear american hero Gagarin.
elisei00 1 year ago
please dont forget Werner von Braun
potatoepeter1 1 year ago
Russia's greatist Win-☄
Zombiestewstudios 1 year ago 33
@Zombiestewstudios And only..
kimballjones 9 months ago
@Zombiestewstudios that was the Soviet Onion
mcgge7 8 months ago
@Zombiestewstudios Think of it! The first SATELLITE!! This video was pretty terrible, there are better clips of the launch, but it should be included in the sample videos of every mobile phone that makes calls farther than a land network can reach. The first satellite? It's like the first time bread was baked, or the first time a wheel was turned. But most people utterly ignore the significance of the event just because it was THEM that did it, not US. All of life has to be a frappin' war?!
malamagr 4 months ago
So Beauty
McKoy999 1 year ago
No color film, typical of Russians.....
legoman05 1 year ago
october 4th, 1957
USSR wins the space race
TeddyFilmz 1 year ago
a billion times more important than Apollo 11.
mrvendetor 1 year ago
@mrvendetor Are You KIDDING!?!?! In no way was this more important than Apollo 11. They launched a satelite. We launched men, and landed on the Moon.
MrSaturdayNight7 1 year ago
@MrSaturdayNight7 yeah
and the soviets were the first in space, first man in space, first women in space, first on moon (Luna 2, Luna 3)
The Americans only got a man on the moon and that was years after the soviet space program success
TeddyFilmz 1 year ago
@TeddyFilmz russians never landed on the moon. The US put the first people in orbit around the moon, and the first man on the moon
nyyankees4296 1 year ago
@nyyankees4296 they got the first anything on the moon which is the Luna 2. It sent back pictures.
The Americans really only were the first ones to put a person on the moon, which is after the space race ended.
The space race was to get a person in space, which Yuri Gagarin did, so the soviet's won, regardless of what your dad told you.....
TeddyFilmz 1 year ago 4
@TeddyFilmz the race was to get a man on the moon. The russians did get the first person in space, but the final finish line was the moon
nyyankees4296 1 year ago
@nyyankees4296 absolutely not!
as the Soviet Union began to tick off objectives on their check list of acheivments the united states ran out of gas and just went straight for the moon. The Space Race would have been re-named something like - get a person on the moon, race.
The American's were significantly less technologically advanced, because the Soviets could already get into space and do manned missions in space and even rover landings on the moon. and that was 10 years before the apollo11
TeddyFilmz 1 year ago
@TeddyFilmz To bad they couldn't keep up the Economy ;)
lolzors128 1 year ago
@TeddyFilmz Moon landing was fake, Americans were 10 years behind Soviets, but all of a sudden they went for a moon and did it. Ridiculous and fake. I am not Russian or American, so i don't give a shit who gets where first, but to me it is obvious, 2+2 =4 not 5
Globox822 11 months ago
@Globox822 Don't you think the Russians, who were tracking the whole thing themselves, would have found out and blown the whistle by now considering how important it was?
Th1sWasATriumph 11 months ago
@nyyankees4296 plus there is no final finish line gimmick to begin with.
The Soviet's were thinking of ways to maximize efficiency in their satellites before the American's even got successful missions completed of basic space travel.
The soviets mastered everything in space, the only reason they did not put a man on the moon is because there would be no strategical advantage to it other than putting a patriotic flag into the moon. They were stretched as it was with other lunar missions!
TeddyFilmz 1 year ago
@TeddyFilmz
The reason the russians didn't put a man on the moon was because they couldn't. Their N1 rocket blew up every time it was launched and had 2/3 the payload capacity of the Saturn V, it was questionable whether it could put something to the moon big enough to get back anyway. By then they had lost, so they concentrated on orbiting the earth some more......and some more......and some more....LOLOLOL
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo OK, moon race was won and lost but it was the stupidest waste of time and money. What good is going the moon? A space station is not even much use, satellites are useful. Now they're talking about going to asteroids and Mars, why? Buy everyone medical insurance for that money, we don't need more space telescopes, space probes, or to go beyond low Earth orbit. Solve Earth problems first. The stupidest race ever was the moon race!
malamagr 4 months ago
@nyyankees4296 Finale does not exist.
There is still Mars and stars and galaxys. So Sputnik its only begin.
mphet26 1 year ago
@TeddyFilmz Technically not the first in space, The Germans were the first with their Aggregate-4 rocket.
hammerman2006 1 year ago
@mrvendetor You just hate America. Plain and simple.
MrSaturdayNight7 1 year ago
@MrSaturdayNight7 this was the first time man had EVER touched space in history, and i hate to break into your small confined world, but Russia also launched the first creature and man into space. We also landed the first machines on Mars, venus and the moon. But despite all that apollo eleven is more important, go back to McDonalds
mrvendetor 1 year ago
@mrvendetor One more ignorant... first Mars and Venus station was soviet.
mphet26 1 year ago
10- 4 is the day of my birth
88pokejoey 1 year ago
@DireWeevil the only reason many scientists came to US is they feared stalin. If their research doesnt produce then they feared of execution. The main brains behind nazi rocket science, Von Braun surrendered to americans for same reason. Only few went to russia.It was all coz of Korolyev that soviets could strike frist and hard at americans.Americans buy brains from others while soviets do not.
lakshman4u 1 year ago
Now I wanna watch this movie, like "October Sky"
DeltaDrago100 1 year ago
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En la semana del espacio, compartimos este vídeo coincidiendo con el aniversario del lanzamiento del primer Sputnik.
marketingdigamel 1 year ago
En la semana del espacio, compartimos este vídeo coincidiendo con el aniversario del lanzamiento del primer Sputnik.
marketingdigamel 1 year ago
Wait a toothless Brit or American redneck will claim it was a HOAX ! Yes a HOAX ,because they had trouble finding their A holes while a SLAVIC nation was exploring space ! LOL
Yes the truth hurts. And it is ALL GOOD.
The radio signals heard on the ground...an ILLUSION. Yes , desperate toothless inbreds and redneck inbreds hate SLAVIC nations for being better.
Nikola Tesla , who is that? Never existed a HOAX too.
bsod4u2 1 year ago
@bsod4u2 What the hell are you talking about? So far as I know there is not conspiracy theory that claims sputnik was a hoax (other than those who belief the moon landing was one too) In any case, if either conspiracy theory were true, the governments of both Russia and the United States would have loudly proclaimed each other as frauds.
DireWeevil 1 year ago
@DireWeevil A few crooked tooth inbred english bastards try hard even releasing so called "documentaries" ! They spit on what they could never achieve!
Just type "Yuri Gagarin was never in space" and also check who the poster is and from where this liar is.
bsod4u2 1 year ago
The people feared/hated the Russians once the Sputnik was in orbit, but they should have thanked the Russians, they started the space age.
torkolv97 1 year ago
3 americana's don't like this video
ayubzafar 1 year ago 41
@ayubzafar actually, the narrator is not the best, but he does add suspense....a little.
emerychandler 1 year ago
@ayubzafar HAHA Its Five now lol RUSSIA THE BEST FUCK THE REST!!!!
mishok007 10 months ago
@ayubzafar 7 americans
AK76produktion 9 months ago
@ayubzafar 33 communists like this comment
StaarScream 9 months ago
@StaarScream why make the generalization of communism, why cant this just be an achievement in science
206sole 9 months ago
sputink: the metal basketball that made american piss itself. : )
typicalviewer2 1 year ago
@typicalviewer2
Americans looked up at the sky in awe, some even cried.
kamikaze6000 1 year ago
@kamikaze6000 i know, it was a triumph of human ingenuity. but what the US military realized is that the soviets had something capable delivering a weapon of mass destruction to the US without being flown over in a plane
typicalviewer2 1 year ago
@typicalviewer2
The entire world was freaked because nobody knew what the crazy ass russians would or could do with it.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo well the huge idea was that the soviets could put a WMD on american soil and there was nothing they could do about it. i keep hearing stories about how people were afaraid the soviets would put "death rays" on the moon.
typicalviewer2 1 year ago
@typicalviewer2
America, europe, wherever. I remember back then the nightly news stations would carry a "sputnik watch" and tell us when to look for it, it was in a very visible super low orbit. People would go out and see it passing over and talk about WTF are they gonna do with that?
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo true.
typicalviewer2 1 year ago
sputinik was the first spy sattlillite
justinTDI4 1 year ago
me encanta este video
comun009 1 year ago
..now we have the good fortune to open up space.. and it is for those in future to envy us.. our joy..
Politics aside, a great moment for all mankind. :)
Mithraelis 1 year ago
wow , yet so primative. and i get pissed when it takes less than one second to click on a video from youtube....
spikeri812 1 year ago
I was 11 years old when this happened and some adults thought that they could attack the US with "Death rays". Scared the hell out of some children.
herbrampe 1 year ago
@herbrampe it was the 50's! alien paranoia, drive in movie theatres, hyrdogen bomb fears, and yet I grow up in a decade where all we know is iPods. Boring!
oldmanwithers1 1 year ago
pip pip pip pip pip. here comes the sputnik. all world was like fuck yah we are in space age. but america was like DAAAAAM, those commies.
gooddarkjedi 1 year ago
What gave them the idea to name it "SPUTNIK"?
Buliderman9 1 year ago
@Buliderman9
The closest English equivalent for russian word "sputnik" might be "companion"
something that will travel together with the Earth...
maly33 1 year ago
@maly33 Well that explains everything.
Buliderman9 1 year ago
@Buliderman9 The "sputnik" in russian means "satellite". Sergei Korolev named it. ( The leader of soviet space programme, who also spent first man into the space ).
roboticmehdi 1 year ago
@roboticmehdi the first russian man to orbit the earth his name was yuri garagin
TheBootieChrist 1 year ago
@TheBootieChrist not only the first russian man but THE FIRST MAN IN THE WORLD. XD
roboticmehdi 1 year ago
@Buliderman9 Sputnik is Russian for "red moon".
jityr2 1 year ago
@jityr2 Sputnik is Russian for "satelite".
ShwangShwing 1 year ago
@ShwangShwing Oh well. The moon is a natural satellite. I came Close.
jityr2 1 year ago
man this documentary makes it seem like the russians launched a death ray or something...
TheOutlawWeasel 1 year ago
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oopla20 1 year ago
A great triumph of the Soviet peoples and all of humanity, the first species to break through into the cosmos...
ObamasDad 1 year ago
It seems nobody like north americans, except north americans (not Mexicans). But in fact we all speak english, not portuguese, spanish, russian, french, etc.
Greetings from Argentina, Nice video, thanks.
josedb 1 year ago
People say that the US won the space race due to their landings on the moon but truly it was the USSR that won since it was the space race so the first into space won which was USSR
This is when communism works
killerofdoom2435 1 year ago
@killerofdoom2435 Russia never put a man on the moon. Big difference in achievement there. And not just one man; 12. But be that as it may, we still need to embrace the spirit of the crew of Apollo 11; Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. They not only left a United States flag on the moon with a plaque, they also left medals honoring two Soviet cosmonauts; Vladimir Komarov and Yuri Gagarin.
The space race has done more to unite us than any other endeavor, IMHO.
DireWeevil 1 year ago
russians are rabbish!
klara651983 1 year ago
the moon landing was obviously real, but they probably showed us the edited version or the studio mock up
sampochin 1 year ago