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Space Bytes: Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1 ignite the space race
Peggy Bohlin recalls Sputnik 1 launched Oct 4 1957 by the USSR and its 84 pound aluminum alloy craft with 42 to 588 mile orbit, 18 000 mph and 1440 orbits, plus Explorer 1 launched Jan 31 1958 from Cape Canaveral with scientific instruments and the Van Allen Belts. It notes contributors Wernher von Braun, William Pickering, and James A. Van Allen and the missions' lasting impact on the space age.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Ussr
United States
Sputnik
Sputnik 1
United States Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Florida
Wernher von Braun
William H. Pickering
James A. van Allen
Army
Redstone Arsenal
Pickering
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
van Allen
University of Iowa
Earth