Sputnik Russian satellite Launched on October Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earths orbit The success of the mission caused panic in the United States which had believed it held the lead in space technology and sparked the Space Race between the two global superpowers Found in the collection of the State Museum of History Moscow
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