It's been fifty years and one day since the launch of Sputnik 1 . Reuters and NASA are both quite right to point out that the satellite technology first deployed by the Soviet Union has gone on to transform the fabric of human civilization. "I am convinced that the Sputnik accomplishment by the Russian people was responsible for the creation of the American space program that I head today," NASA administrator Michael Griffin told space veterans at Russia's Academy of Science. The ceremony... read more
