67 years ago tonight, the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit around Earth.

This is an excerpt from a special report two nights later. (1/x)

youtube.com/watch?v=qdQHuiV_9A

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In Russian, Sputnik's official name was "simplest satellite." ("Sputnik" is Russian for satellite.) It did nothing but go beep-beep. The beeping transmission was to prove to the world that it was really there. (2/x)

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