Sputnik 1
Tom Steinhauer: “A real little, shiny baseball going across the late evening sky”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21NwtW75uo?rel=0

US citizen Tom Steinhauer is interviewed by his nephew about seeing Sputnik travel across the night sky in 1957. The Soviet project was the first artificial Earth satellite that triggered the great Space Race.

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