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...Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of this watershed event, the NASA History Office and several co-sponsors put together a highly praised symposium involving more than 150 participants from around the world, plus some thirty media people. Papers from that meeting, which occurred on September 30 and October 1, 1997, in Washington, D.C., along with additional research studies, have been assembled by editors Roger Launius,...
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