The Sputnik 1 was ... ran out on October 26, 1957, after the satellite completed 326 orbits. Even after the batteries failed, ...
It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first ... of the Soviet space dogs, into orbit on the considerably larger ...
NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into earth orbit. The first man-made satellite passes overhead, making one revolution every 90 minutes. October 5: The Soviet daily newspaper ...