"Byker" wrote in
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4 October 1957: Sputnik 1 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome)
aboard a variant of the R-7 ICBM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 Attachment decoded:
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Attachment decoded: Sputnik-1.jpg
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