Launch of Sputnik, October 4, 1957

Launch of Sputnik, October 4, 1957

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Science & Technology

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• Launch
• of
• Sputnik
• October
• 1957

[bitscolumn]

Incredible moment in history

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[Devokonstai]

@brendanmohare Congratulations! You just reminded us of how intelligent the average american yokel is!

Go USA!

[antho3001]

@mcpottypants9 LOL that was the first thing that came to my mind when i first saw it

[Unboxermail]

@mcpottypants9 It actully does haha. Weird isn't it! O.o

[eldrotto]

@hoangkim1992 that was FIRST thing in space launched by Humans

[mcpottypants9]

Sputnik 1 looks like the enclave eye bots from fallout 3

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@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

[physicskid1]

although I wish that the USA would have launched the first space vehicle, Sputnik was a major accomplishment for the human race

[ElassonaG13]

@hoangkim1992 ei dickhead it was 1958

[hoangkim1992]

so they wasted a lot of time just to let people on earth hear beep beep ??

[geomodelrailroader]

@tapetalflipper0 LOL

[tapetalflipper0]

@geomodelrailroader the period key is next to the comma