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Thursday, October 04, 2007 05:45:10 AM

SCIENCE

Fifty Years After Sputnik

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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite to orbit around the Earth on October 4, 1957.

The satellite was called Sputnik. It started a race into space between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Sputnik stayed in space for 96 days and orbited around the Earth 1,440 times.


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