Space Age turns fifty
Tags: Space Age Baikonur Cosmodrome Sputnik satellite Sputnik-1 Sergey Korolev hydrogen bomb carrier intercontinental missile
Length: 6:90
Description: The world's space community marks half a century since the beginning of the Space Age. Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Sputnik - the first-ever artificial satellite -- blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. Sputnik-1 was a simple radio transmitter locked in a steel ball.
Author: RussiaToday
Source: YouTube
