Sputnik-1 Frontier of Space Exploration and Technology

Thesis

In 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite, breaking the frontier of advanced space technology and exploration. This event catapulted the USSR and the USA into the Space Race. Sputnik’s initial success proved that space exploration was possible, leading to the creation of NASA and DARPA.

"A greater defeat for our country than Pearl Harbor": Edward Teller, father of the US hydrogen bomb.

"The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets - to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open." - Sergei Korolev -

Sputnik 1 replica, education.nationalgeographic.org, date unknown

Leo Jackola, Glenn Beinert and Neil Eskola Junior Division ' Group Website Media time ' Process Paper Word Count: 458 ' Website Word Count: 1200 '