The first satellite, Sputnik-1


    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw57VErRjA8   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUoqCtki1Yo   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-bQEiklsK8



The first satellite, Sputnik-1
Launch of Sputnik-1, 4 Oct 1957
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/ja/sputnik_1.html

Satellite Catalog Number 1 is given in the rocket Sputnik /Sputnik (A, SL-1) which launched Sputnik-1.
Satellite Catalog Number 2 is SPUTNIK-1  1957-001B  CIS  1957-10-04  TTMTR  1958-01-03


The first manned space flight
Vostok-1, 12 Apr 1961, Yurii Alekseevich Gagarin
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/ja/vostok.html
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/ja/kaihatu_astronauts_gagarin.html
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ei7m-wkt/eisei--.htm


The first Moon landing
Apollo-11, 20 Jul 1969, Neil ADArmstrong
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/ja/apollo_11.html
http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/ja/kaihatu_astronauts_armstrong.html


My JE9PEL's book 45 years ago
    

    




[Supplement] AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-UK

50th Anniversary of OSCAR-1 on 12th Dec 2011

The first amateur radio satellite OSCAR-1 was launched 50 years ago on
December 12, 1961.  OSCAR 1 was battery powered and signals lasted for
about two weeks. It re-entered the Earthfs atmosphere on January 31, 1962.

The original audio recording of OSCAR 1, 144.983MHz CW
The half speed recording of OSCAR 1, 144.983MHz CW
Sixty Years of Radio Amateur Communication - Marconi to the OSCAR Satellite
Newspaper article on OSCAR 1

Wrote by VA6BMJ,
1957-10-04:  Sputnik-1 launched
1959-09-12:  Luna-2 launched to moon, impacted 1959-09-13
1960-08-12:  Echo-1 launched
1961-04-12:  Vostok-1 with Yuri Gagarin
1961-05-05:  Freedom-7 with Alan Shepard
1961-07-21:  Liberty Bell-7 with Gus Grissom
1961-08-06:  Vostok-2 with Gherman Titov
1961-12-12:  OSCAR-1 launched
1962-02-20:  Friendship-7 with John Glenn
1962-07-10:  Telstar-1 launched
1962-08-27:  Mariner-2 launched to Venus, closest approach 1962-12-14


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