October 4
The signal is not a speech. It is a metronome from orbit: beep, beep, beep.
Sputnik 1 weighs 83.6 kilograms and carries a radio. That is enough. American newspapers discover a new kind of weather — political weather falling from the sky.
October 4
The signal is not a speech. It is a metronome from orbit: beep, beep, beep.
Sputnik 1 weighs 83.6 kilograms and carries a radio. That is enough. American newspapers discover a new kind of weather — political weather falling from the sky.