20 Amazing Things That Happened in the ’50s
1957: Sputnik Launches
On October 19, the Soviet Union sends up Sputnik 1. Here, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. Fred Whipple plot the orbit of the satellite.
1957: Sputnik Launches
On October 19, the Soviet Union sends up Sputnik 1. Here, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. Fred Whipple plot the orbit of the satellite.