gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Space - Shuttle)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2007-10-04 05:35 am
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50 years ago today, the future started

Happy Anniversary, Sputnik I! The first man-made object to orbit the Earth!



The Wiki page I linked to above has links to recordings of Sputnik's radio signal. Listen to the sound of a new age dawning.
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[identity profile] dalen-talas.livejournal.com 2007-10-04 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I be proud for my countrymen!

And I just love that song, thanks for finding the video.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2007-10-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!"
Sputnik sails giggling through the skies...

(I have the song as an mp3 and thought of it from the title before I saw you'd linked it.)
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