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SPUTNIKS, SAUCEKS, «ND SPACECRAFT (1) W. B. Smith (2) On October 3rd, 1957 the Russians astonished the world by plecing an artificial satelitc culled a vputnik, in orbit around the earth. To most of the world artificial satelites and space travel were things which might happen sometime in the dim and distant future, but to have a satelite actually aloft brought home the fact that space travel was about to become a reality. There were official announcements that the sputnik was there and many...