In case you missed this birthday.

[480sparky]

60 years ago today, the first Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union.

 

[vintagesnaps]

My best friend and I were just talking the other day about when we were kids and the capsule would plop in the ocean and a ship would go out to pick them up... seems like it was a big deal at the time.

I don't know how the astronauts stood it in that little compartment drinking Tang.

 

[tecboy]

I feel sorry for that dog.

 

[480sparky]

I feel sorry for that dog.

No dog involved in Sputnik 1.

 

[vintagesnaps]

You aren't thinking of Spuds are you?

OK I googled it, there was a cosmonaut dog that I don't remember anything about.

 

[Gary A.]

And it is still flying, but around the internet.

 

[tecboy]

You aren't thinking of Spuds are you?

OK I googled it, there was a cosmonaut dog that I don't remember anything about.

You were too young to remember!

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1957-002A