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[Swprograms] 60 years in space today!



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From: Mike Terry <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: DXLD <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Yahoogroups <bdxc-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 15:30
Subject: 50 years in space today!

In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring civilization ââ and it was us.
Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, launched on Oct. 4 of that year from a site in Kazakhstan, then a part of the USSR. That site is now the Baikonur Cosmodrome; at the time it was site 1/5 at the Tyuratam range.
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