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1. Sputnik was the first of several satellites in the Soviet Union 's Sputnik program, the majority of them successful.
2. Sputnik, a Russian word meaning "fellow traveler," was an 83 kilogram (183-pound) satellite the size and shape of a basketball.
3. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. (Web site)
4. Sputnik was designed to return data about the composition and density of Earth's upper atmosphere. (Web site)
5. Before Sputnik, the average American assumed that the U.S. had superiority in all fields of technology.

Students

1. The spacecraft body resembled Sputnik 1 and was built by students at the Polytechnic Laboratory of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Korabl-Sputnik

1. Sputnik 5 (also sometimes called Korabl-Sputnik 2) was the first satellite to return animals from orbit.

Soviet Satellite Sputnik

1. The first manmade object sent into space was the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1, launched in 1957, which successfully orbited the Earth for over a year.

Russian Satellite Sputnik

1. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.

First Man-Made Satellite

1. The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. (Web site)

Soviet Sputnik

1. The first satellite equipped with on-board radio-transmitters was the Soviet Sputnik 1, launched in the 1950's.

Korabl Sputnik

1. Sputnik 4 (Korabl Sputnik 1) was launched two years later, on May 15, 1960.
2. Their Korabl Sputnik launched on 22 Dec 1960 never reached orbit.

Sputnik Program

1. The Sputnik program began on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1, which weighed 83 kg (184 lb). (Web site)
2. Launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, it was the first satellite of the Sputnik program.
3. The Sputnik program consisted of 3 successful satellites that were about 2 ft round and weighed 184 lds, it stayed up for 6 months. (Web site)

Signals

1. The Sputnik 1 signals were another unpleasant surprise for American scientists. (Web site)

Generation

1. Tony James (born 12 April 1958) is a British musician, best known as a bassist of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

Trunk

1. Influential for its size, Sputnik I without its antennas could fit into the trunk of a family car. (Web site)
2. Sputnik 1 (the name means "fellow traveler") was small; without its antennae it could fit into the trunk of a compact car. (Web site)

United Nations

1. A Sputnik 1 model was given as a present to the United Nations and now decorates the entry Hall of its New York City Headquarters.

Months

1. A few months later the Soviets answered with Sputnik 3, a miniature physics laboratory sent into orbit to collect scientific data. (Web site)
2. Sputnik 1 remained in orbit for about 3 months, finally burning up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
3. Sputnik 1 was the size of a large beachball, weighed more than 80 kg and orbited the Earth for more than two months. (Web site)

Month

1. The actual development of Sputnik was performed in less than a month. (Web site)
2. To coincide with the anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Sputnik 2, carrying a live dog, was launched less than a month later.

Basketball

1. The first artificial satellite, called Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and was the size of a basketball. (Web site)

Explorer

1. Telstar wasn't the first satellite, that was Sputnik, launched by the USSR. The first American satellite was Explorer.

United States

1. Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, beating the United States and stunning people all over the world. (Web site)
2. With Cold War tensions running high, the Soviet Union and United States took their rivalry to the stars in 1957 with the Soviet launch of Sputnik.
3. Sputnik (left) and Explorer (rightethe first satellites launched by the Soviet Union and the United States, respectively.

Work

1. So, with the help of Aufuldish, professor David Meckel, and design department dean Michael Vanderbyl, she launched Sputnik, where students would do the work.

Decayed

1. The orbit of Sputnik 2 decayed and it reentered Earth's atmosphere on 14 April 1958 after 162 days in orbit. (Web site)

Vanguard

1. In addition to Sputnik 2 and Vanguard, there were 13 more launch attempts within 12 months of the launch of Sputnik 1. (Web site)
2. Vanguard 2 was followed by the American satellite Explorer 3, launched on March 26, 1958, and by the Soviet satellite Sputnik 3, launched on May 15.

Mission

1. The first successful orbital launch was of the Soviet unmanned Sputnik ("Satellite I") mission on October 4, 1957.

Outer Space

1. In 1957, America was astonished, as was the rest of the world, when it was discovered that a Russian satellite, Sputnik, had gone into outer space. (Web site)

Atmosphere

1. Sputnik 2 reentered the atmosphere of the earth and was destroyed after 162 days aloft.
2. Sputnik helped to determine the density of the upper atmosphere, through measurement from the ground of the satellite's orbital changes.

December

1. Sputnik 6 (Korabl Sputnik 3) was launched on December 2, 1960 with the dogs Pchelka and Mushka, who died on re-entry by an unplanned destructive charge.
2. Pchelka ("Little Bee") and Muska ("Little Fly") were launched onboard Sputnik 6 or Korabl Sputnik 3 on December 1, 1960 along with mice, insects, and plants. (Web site)

November

1. November 3, 1957 - Sputnik 2, carrying the dog Laika for 7 days in orbit, is launched by the U.S.S.R., and remains in orbit until April 13, 1958.
2. Launched November 3, 1957, Sputnik 2, a satellite of 500 kg was taken to space the first living being, the dog Laika. (Web site)

April 14

1. Sputnik 2 fell back to Earth on April 14, 1958, burning up during re-entry. (Web site)
2. The orbit of Sputnik 2 decayed and it reentered Earth's atmosphere on April 14, 1958 after 162 days in orbit.

Dog

1. Sputnik 2 was launched some months later, and carried the first living passenger, a dog named Laika. (Web site)
2. When a month later Sputnik 2 safely carried a dog into orbit, anxieties here increased.

Space Exploration

1. In the Soviet Union the launch of Sputnik and the following program of space exploration was met with great interest from the public.
2. Another summarizes the early years of space exploration in the wake of Sputnik 1. (Web site)
3. Oct. 2: Former spaceflight engineers toast the 50th anniversary of Sputnik at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Ala.

Flight

1. Sputnik 2 carried a dog, Laika, the first living creature to orbit Earth; since Sputnik 2 was not designed to sustain life, Laika did not survive the flight.
2. The West names the flight as "Sputnik 2" though the satellite is a totally other model. (Web site)

Gagarin

1. Gagarin graduated November 7, 1957, four days after Sputnik 2 was launched. (Web site)
2. Korabl Sputnik 1 launched one year before Gagarin, as it was known, was a prototype of the later Zenit and Vostok manned launchers.

Space Program

1. The Soviet Union had successfully orbited the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957, lending the U.S. space program a new urgency.
2. From moment he learned about Sputnik, Gagarin secretly knew he would join the space program and even began sketching his ideas for spaceships.

Launching

1. In 1957, the launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik changed the course of our nation. (Web site)

Spacecraft

1. This new spacecraft would weigh six times the mass of the Sputnik 1, and would include as a payload the dog Laika. (Web site)

Earth Orbit

1. The Sputnik program was the world's first successful one to launch a rocket, a living being, and a human into Earth orbit.
2. The Soviet Sputnik program consisted of four satellites, three of which reached Earth orbit.

Soviet Union

1. The Soviet Union launched the first animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika (in English, "Barker") on Sputnik 2, November 3, 1957.
2. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II, on November 3, 1957, the Secretary of Defense directed the Army to use the Juno I and launch a satellite. (Web site)
3. It was not until 1957 and the launch of Sputnik 1 that America realized how far it lagged behind the Soviet Union in the emerging Space Race. (Web site)

Several Pieces

1. The source turned out to be several pieces of plastic tubing, which he claimed matched structural diagrams of the Sputnik 1 satellite.

Chief Designer

1. Eighteen years later, he is the Chief Designer of Sputnik and his success is without measure. (Web site)
2. The chief designer for the Sputnik program was a Ukrainian survivor of the Gulags, Sergei Korolyov. (Web site)

First Satellites

1. Although Dong Fang I was launched 13 years after Sputnik I, its mass exceeded the combined masses of the first satellites of the other four countries. (Web site)

August 1960

1. The first animals to survive in orbital spaceflight were the Soviet dogs, Strelka and Belka, launched in Sputnik 5 in August 1960. (Web site)

Living Creature

1. With communism's triumph over capitalist science via Sputnik, Soviet Premier Khrushchev wanted an in-your-face sequel: a living creature sent into space.

Space Probes

1. Our robot satellites and space probes have greatly contributed to our expanding knowledge since Sputnik 1 entered Earth orbit in October of 1957. (Web site)

Former Soviet Union

1. It wasn't until 1957 that the former Soviet Union demonstrated this with a satellite called Sputnik I. (Web site)

First Man-Made

1. It included Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit earth. (Web site)
2. The next major milestone was the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 which became the first man-made object to orbit the Earth.

Venus

1. Sputnik 7 was the first Soviet attempt at launching a probe to explore Venus.

Venera

1. Sputnik 8 was an orbiting launch base and successfully launched Venera 1 to Venus.
2. Venera 4 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (67-058B) towards Venus with the announced mission of direct atmospheric studies. (Web site)

Moon

1. In the decade following Sputnik I, the United States and the USSR between them launched about 50 space probes to explore the moon. (Web site)
2. It was launched only two years after Sputnik 1, and was the first spacecraft to photograph the far side of the Moon. (Web site)
3. Zond 8, a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program, was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik (70-088B), towards the Moon.

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