Our local newspaper recently celebrated their 100 anniversary by publishing selected front pages from the last 100 years. Here is a little nostalgia with the leading story from The Alpena News, October 7, 1957: -- ROCKET ALSO CIRCLING EARTH London – Moscow Radio announced today that part of the missile which launched Russia’s satellite is also encircling the earth in a moon-like orbit of its own. The last stage of the rocket apparently was caught in space and became a second satellite. “It is not only the satellite which is being watched,” Moscow radio said, “but also the rocket that carried it into the orbit. “This rocket is also encircling the earth at approximately the same altitude as the satellite. “But it is separated from it by some 1,000 kilometers (680 miles). The distance will alter in the future.” This announcement was the latest in Russia’s stepped-up scientific and propaganda battle with the West. Shortly before, it reported it had exploded a “new” hydrogen warhead on Sunday. This came only a few days behind Moscow’s achievement of launching the first satellite into outer space. Today’s announcement came as American scientists in Barcelona, Spain, reported Soviet scientists far along in studies of a space ship that can visit the moon and return. The Russians reports Soviet armed forces volunteers already were undergoing space travel tests. The scientists are attending the eight International Astronautical Congress in Barcelona. Thousands of persons in Australia reported they had seen the sparkling Soviet satellite as it streaked over the Southern Hemisphere today. Moscow Radio reported that many Russians also had seen it. U.S. scientists expected to bring it under scrutiny of powerful telescopes when its orbit swings over the United States during the hours of dawn or dusk in about a week. At that time it may also be visible to the naked eye in the United States, scientists said. Telescopes will give the U.S. scientists a close-up view of the Russian globe. A spokesman for the U.S. satellite project said the artificial moon’s orbit is not “fairly accurately fixed” and can be predicted up to a week in the future. -- Bryan Dort - bdort@yahoo.com Alpena, MI USA 45.0524N 83.4575W 200m __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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