Sputnik

Sputnik Sputnik It was that blasted “beep, beep, beep” every 90 minutes reminding the United States, “Rah, we beat you!” History changed on October 4th 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik. The Russian’s launched the first artificial satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrone in Kazakhstan which demonstrated the technological superiority of Communism, actually more of a propaganda pain for the United States. The Sputnik launch occurred back in the days when the Americans and the Russians regarded each other as enemies, also known as the “cold war.” They built massive armies, navies, and air forces and were prepared to engage in global war at a moments notice. American military manuals regarded the Russians as “The Threat,” and the Soviet Government went as far as training non-military to use small guns to prepare for an invasion from “The Imperialists.” Sputnik had an elliptical orbit, ranging in altitude from 140 to 590 miles. Sputnik broadcast a steady signal of beeps from two radios for 21 days. It burned up in the earth’s atmosphere upon reentry, 92 days later, on January 4, 1958. It was designed to determine the density of the upper atmosphere and return data about the launch, sputnik, satellite, soviet, russians, space, orbit, united, states, first, became, said, rocket, launched, eisenhower, american, about, union, u2, travel, scientific, satellites, over, one, new, movie, military, international, everyone, days, atmosphere, artificial, after