Historically speaking, Sputnik was an entirely appropriate name for the spacecraft. Over countless eons leading up to 4 October 1957, our Earth had been accompanied on its celestial journey by the Moon, nature’s own satellite. But on that momentous October day the world would unexpectedly have a second satellite; an instrument package hermetically sealed and filled with gaseous nitrogen within a polished, 22.8-inch-diameter steel sphere that had been given a Cyrillic name translating to “fellow traveller”. That day the history of our planet would change dramatically and forever. The Space Age had truly begun.


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