60 years ago today, Russia launched Sputnik 1

By Staff Reporter
Updated October 4 2017 - 2:03pm, first published 1:54pm
An assistant astronomer tracks the orbit of the Russian satellite, Sputnik I, at the observatory at Robertson, NSW, 9 October 1957.
SMH Picture by BARRY GILMORE

T/4/13/44-46 An assistant astronomer tracks the orbit of the Russian satellite, Sputnik I, at the observatory at Robertson, NSW, 9 October 1957.
An assistant astronomer tracks the orbit of the Russian satellite, Sputnik I, at the observatory at Robertson, NSW, 9 October 1957. SMH Picture by BARRY GILMORE T/4/13/44-46 An assistant astronomer tracks the orbit of the Russian satellite, Sputnik I, at the observatory at Robertson, NSW, 9 October 1957.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on October 7, 1957

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