1.4K views | More than half a century ago the USSR accelerated the space race with the launch of Sputnik 1. | National Geographic UK | Facebook

1.1K views · 29 reactions | Sputnik 1: El Beep que Cambió el Mundo Un 4 de octubre de 1957. Un simple sonido desde el espacio puso al mundo en pánico y cambió la historia para siempre. El Sputnik 1: Una esfera de metal del tamaño de una pelota de playa. Solo 83 kilos. Cuatro antenas. Nada sofisticado. Pero ese "beep-beep" soviético hizo algo que nadie esperaba: le ganó a Estados Unidos la carrera al espacio. ️ BEEP... BEEP... BEEP... ️ | Vagos | Facebook

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/f0ySF2J Sputnik 1 was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, and it set off a wave of fear and anxiety across the U.S. now known as the "Sputnik crisis." Sputnik was a metal sphere roughly 2 feet (58 cm) in diameter with four long radio antennas. These antennas transmitted little beeping pulses down to Earth that even amateur radio operators cou

26K views · 94 reactions | Sputnik 1 launched on October 4, 1957, initiating the Space Race and a new era of space exploration. #history #space #coldwar #didyouknow | Spy the Wildness | Facebook