Author Topic: October 4th 1957 (Read 1710 times)

Boroda · « **on:** October 03, 2007, 08:38:15 PM »

Beep-beep.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:42:21 PM »

Sputnik stunned the world

Wes14 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:42:53 PM »

Yeager · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:49:11 PM »

I hear it made quite an impression back in the day......Hey, inside every russian is a american just begging to escape

AWMac · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:51:46 PM »

Happy Birthday Boroda!

What????

Mac

Boroda · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:15:30 PM »

Masherbrum · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:50:06 PM »

The United States sees your Sputnik and raise you:

Halo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:54:14 PM »

Beep-beep? I thought this was a Roadrunner thread.

Oh, that's right, you soon put Wily Coyote in orbit.

1K3 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:10:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
The United States sees your Sputnik and raise you:

Hollywood Studios?

j/k

Viking · « **Reply #9 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:33:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
The United States sees your Sputnik and raise you:

Better get a band-aid on that hurt national pride of yours.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:46:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda

Filmed in Stalinwood studios.

Shuffler · « **Reply #11 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:11:54 PM »

Sputnik was actually the idea of one man and one man alone. He only recently received praise for it. The russians were stunned at the reaction of the world.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:25:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Viking
Better get a band-aid on that hurt national pride of yours.

Yup, seeing the flag of Norway being planted on the moon first hurt really bad.

MiloMorai · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:35:47 PM »

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=169&sid=1893019

According to one of the scientists on the project, Sputnik 1 came about not because of any Soviet desire to beat the US into space, but because they were looking to test out a rocket designed to deliver a military payload.

Estel · « **Reply #14 on:** October 04, 2007, 01:02:48 AM »

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=169&sid=1893019

According to one of the scientists on the project, Sputnik 1 came about not because of any Soviet desire to beat the US into space, but because they were looking to test out a rocket designed to deliver a military payload.

No. R-7 was already tested as a nuke delivery system that time. And Sputnik was a test of R-7 possibilities as a particular orbit injector and sure, a test of radio-transmitting ability.