Tag: sputnik
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space trackers: judica cordiglia bros.
A memorial weekend italiano extraterrestre stravaganza provided for your pleasure! Let’s go Space Truckin’. First, the amazing Judica Cordiglia brothers who tracked radio transmissions of early space missions. In the late fifties, Achille and Giovanni set up an amateur tracking station just outside Turin, Italy in a former convalescent home at a place they called…
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50th Anniversary: First Man In Space
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off aboard Vostok 1, on April 12, 1961, to become first man in space. The event proved a second political coup for the Soviet Union.
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Space Junk: Vanguard 1
Debris in space is a growing concern. Space Junk has made a necessity of cataloging space objects, the launch of a surveillance satellite, and will result in more near earth collisions.