Labels:text | screenshot OCR: SPACE EXPLORATION QUEST 1 OVERVIEW SOVIET UNION LAUNCHES RACE QUEST UNITED STATES IN PURSUIT LUNAR LANDINGS SHUTTLE MISSIONS Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 launches the space age 1: SATELLITE IN ORBIT In October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial space satellite. Sputnik 1 weighed 1841bs and orbited the earth once every 96 minutes. The Soviet success surprised and embarrassed the United States, but captured the imagination of the rest of the world. CHRONOLOGY NEWSFLASH ...
