First launched on October 4, 1957, its name is Russian for "fellow traveler"
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List of spacecraft called Sputnik - Wikipedia  Sputnik (), a Russian word meaning "satellite" or literally "fellow traveler", is a name applied to certain spacecraft launched under the ... Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to go into orbit, launched 4 October 1957; Sputnik 2, the first spacecraft to carry a living ... These objects are listed with their official Soviet names:.
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Newsela | Time Machine (1957): Sputnik  For the first time in human history, a man-made satellite has been launched into space and is ... On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a satellite called Sputnik (Russian for "fellow traveler") hundreds of miles into the air. ... Many details about the satellite and its launch remain mysterious, but this is what is known so far:.
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The First Satellites  May 19, 1997 ... On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. Its official Russian name was Iskustvennyi Sputnik Zemli, or "Fellow Traveler of the...
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Sputnik - definition of sputnik by The Free Dictionary  Any of a series of Soviet satellites sent into Earth orbit, especially the first, launched October 4, 1957. [Russian sputnik (zemli), fellow traveler (of Earth) : so-, s-,...
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Sputnik 1 | NASA  On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. ... The word 'Sputnik' originally meant 'fellow traveler,' but has become synonymous with 'satellite. ... traveler,' but has become synonymous with 'satellite' in modern Russian. ..... It wasn't until some two hours later, when the satellite had made its first...
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Jeopary Questions page 2232 - U.S. GEOGRAPHY - TriviaBistro.com  ... the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora ... AWARDS: In 1975 this physicist became the first citizen of the Soviet Union to...
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Animals in space - Wikipedia  These two dogs were the first living higher organisms successfully recovered from a spaceflight. ... On 3 November 1957, the second-ever orbiting spacecraft carried the first animal into orbit, the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft (nicknamed 'Muttnik' in the West).
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Free Flashcards about WORLD HISTORY - StudyStack  DERIVING ITS NAME FROM THE RUSSIAN FOR "FELLOW TRAVELER", IT MADE NEWS IN 1957, SPUTNIK ... AROUND 1650 B.C., THESE PEOPLE MADE THEIR CAPITAL AT HATTUSAS IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA IN WHAT IS KNOW...
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Nerdfighteria Wiki - Why Do We Call Them 'Astronauts'?  May 10, 2016 ... And it's not like we call Russian doctors or French chemists or Japanese biologists by a different name. So why are space travelers different?
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In the Shadow of the Moon_ a Challenging Journey to Nquility, 1965 ...  We were not terribly impressed by anyone else, but somehow or other they ... In four short years they had launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, followed by ... A full four years before the first flight of the three-man Apollo spacecraft, which I would fly, ... The space race seems a long time ago, now that we have Russians and...
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Today in science: Launch of Sputnik | Space | EarthSky  Oct 4, 2016 ... October 4, 1957. On this date, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. According to many space...
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Moon Investigative Assets: Insights - PBS  ... shocked the world when Korolev's team launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. ... sphere circled the earth once every 96 minutes, whizzing along at 18,000 mph and most .... On his 59th birthday Korolev entered an elite Kremlin hospital for what was ... One fact is known, the chief designer died on the operating table.
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Sputnik 1: World's 1st Artificial Satellite Explained ... - Space.com  Oct 3, 2012 ... On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world with its surprise launch of Sputnik 1. See how the historic satellite launch worked in this SPACE.com ... practical to launch an object into a circular path around the Earth.
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Sputnik launched - Oct 04, 1957 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Sputnik launched on Oct 04, 1957. ... The Soviet Union inaugurates the Space Age with its launch of Sputnik, the world's ... The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for satellite, was launched at 10:29 p.m. .... attack on British General William Howe's 9,000 British troops at Germantown,...
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Dennis Tito - Wikipedia  Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS ... April 28, 2001, spending 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space and orbiting Earth...
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List of human spaceflight programs - Wikipedia  Vostok 1 was the first human spaceflight. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961, taking into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union.
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended. Vostok I capsule...
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First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit  Apr 27, 2011 ... Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ... Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft ... If the era of commercial spaceflight has a birthday, it's April 28, 2001. ... He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were...
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Laika - Wikipedia  Laika (Russian: ; c. 1954  November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November ... Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the...
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Sputnik launched - Oct 04, 1957 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Sputnik launched on Oct 04, 1957. ... Union inaugurates the Space Age with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. ... its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee...
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by hilarry &amp; sammi - Prezi  Feb 22, 2016 ... In November 1963, she married fellow cosmonaut, Andrian Nikolayev. The couple made several good trips abroad, had a daughter, and later...