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# Sputnik
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Space Missions That Have Crazy Backstories
The dream of flying into outer space is as long as human history. But getting there required the greatest scientific minds, and someone willing to be strapped to a rocket and shot into…
American History
CBS Funded Invasions to Televise and Other Extreme Lengths in History
News reporters going to extreme lengths to chase down a story is so common a trope that it has become…
Politics
Spies, Satellites, and Paranoia: 5 Political Scandals of the 1950s
The 1950s were a time of many booms (baby booms, real-estate booms, economic booms), but they were also a time…
General
This Day In History: The Russians Launch Sputnik (1957)
On this day in history, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made object into space and in doing so they…