Space TIME
Aug 13, 2022
2 minutes
By Jeffrey Kluger / EDITOR AT LARGE
ISTORY REMEMBERS OCT. 4, 1957, a lot better than it remembers Jan. 4, 1958—although in recent weeks, the second date is coming to loom larger than the first. Oct. 4, 1957, was the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik—the world’s first satellite—an achievement that heralded the start of the space in a banner headline. REDS FIRE ‘MOON’ INTO SKY, yelped the Chicago
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