Sputnik at the Beginning of the Space Age

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Sputnik at the Beginning of the Space Age

On Friday 04 October 1957—68 years ago today—the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite of Earth. This action initiated both the Space Age and then the Space Race. The Space Race is over, won by the US with the Apollo Moon landings, but is the Space Age tapering off also, or is it just getting started?

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