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Sunday Bag o’ Sputnik

Posted on July 21, 2019July 27, 2020 by Paul Woodford

I have an older but sharper memory of Grandfather Estes dragging me and my sister Sue outside one night to see something that had never seen before. It was October 1957, and the Russians had just launched Sputnik.

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Posted in Current Events, History, PersonalTagged Apollo 11, space exploration, Sputnik, USS United States, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, zero G2 Comments on Sunday Bag o’ Sputnik

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