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October 3rd, 2007
Sputnik Space Launch Marks 50 years

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Fifty years ago, a bleeping aluminium sphere the size of a basketball became the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 took the world by surprise and ushered in the space age.
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