60 years ago today

[Byker]

4 October 1957: Sputnik 1 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome) aboard
a variant of the R-7 ICBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

[john szalay]

"Byker" > wrote in
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> 4 October 1957: Sputnik 1 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome)
> aboard a variant of the R-7 ICBM:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 Attachment decoded:
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> Attachment decoded: Sputnik-1.jpg
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