Happy birthday to the Space Age, fifty years old today. On a personal note, I was old enough that I could have remembered when Sputnik launched. But, like many kids growing up in the '50's and early '60's, I lived a kind of sheltered life. What I really remember, what got me interested in rocketry and space travel, was Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in May of 1961.
For a couple of Sputnik 50th anniversary articles, try these links...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1487
and...
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/50th-sputnik-timline-2007.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1487
and...
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/50th-sputnik-timline-2007.html
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