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Sunday, October 4, 2020

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1.

“From the vantage point of 2000 A.D., the year 1957 will most certainly stand in history as the year of man’s progression from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional geography. It may well stand also, as the point in time at which intellectual achievement forged ahead of weapons and national wealth as instruments of national policy.” – Lloyd Berkner

The key which launched Sputnik next to my dad’s Vanguard TV-3 at the National Air and Space Museum.

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