Space Age October 7, 2007
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USSR postage stamp depicting Sputnik 1. The caption reads: “The world’s first Soviet artificial satellite of the Earth” (Wikipedia)
Shrugging free of its shackles, an R-7rocket lifts skyward from the vast Baikonur cosmodrome in remote Kazakhstan. On board is the world’s first artificial Earth satellite, Спутник-1..
[National Geographic (Adapted)]
Written for 50th Anniversary of Sputnik launch, 04OCT1957-04OCT2007
