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 ADArmstrong
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 Earthfs 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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