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Today in Aviation History: Sputnik 1, The World's First Artificial Satellite, is Launched Into Orbit
The Sputnik 1 was designed at OKB-1, a design agency responsible for most of the USSR’s early space technology. The designing ...
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The Mystery Rocket Man
Fifty years after the death of the mysterious ‘Chief Designer.’ In the early days of the space race, NASA was loomed over by an enigmatic Soviet scientist: “The Soviet program,” wrote Tom ...