Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Sputnik - A Triumph of Soviet Technology



Early in 1958, the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 successfully returned to earth, and started the SPACE RACE.

Later that year, the U.S. Government in craven desperation formed NASA, the North American Space Agency, in a panic at the supremacy of Soviet technological space achievement.

Those yankees sure were sweating!

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