sputnik flight was even more impressive than the first. sputnik two was certainly more important sputnik one where sputnik one way to hundred eighty four pounds and was about the size of beach ball sputnik to was about the size of evokes wagon and had a dog inside and it had much more capability much more electronics and if you were not concerned about sputnik one because it s national security implications were pretty modest. you should be concerned about sputnik too because you put a pretty pretty big bomb in the capsule that was a sputnik to. the global press began to question the mission for the first time. there were doubts about whether like his death was actually a painless one as had been officially maintained and suffering for apparently that god will be right. and baby and. person. might.
after being home on leave. her alone that. he asked if it was possible to launch another sputnik in time for the october revolution celebrations. by november seventh. oh yeah curly i was shocked at first because he wasn t interested in doing a repeat of the first sputnik. oh so they had to think of something completely new. both that and that s how they came up with the idea of launching the dog like a into space. but will put it go much further erode away what that way with. a way. like it was the next big soviet space feat she was the first living being to fly into space. her space ship had to be designed in four weeks the launch took place on november third. there were no plans for like his return. the second
indicators that the soviets were in the race. secret cia information that you two surveillance flights had picked up wasn t being taken all that seriously in the white house in fact about a seriously as official test reports after all they were used to soviet games of bluff and deception. this time however the soviets were right on schedule nevertheless carly. if had to rearrange his plans unlike the rocket that would carry it the satellite code named object was still far from ready it was too complex so he swiftly decided to take it out of the program and replace it with a simpler sputnik the constructor s had to work a lot of overtime no i don t think oh yeah they always had an eye on the americans . and he turned up the heat. but he wasn t the only one pushing us to hurry the
the world didn t even know his name until he was buried in the kremlin wall as a hero of the soviet union the man who ensured he and sputnik one would have a place in the history books. and it wasn t just sputnik. four years after that launch carli have succeeded again in the next space conquest when you re a good guy and became the first man in space it was the next humiliation for the u.s. . but three years after coralie of stefan brown s saturn five moon rocket turned things around for the americans again. landing a man on the moon was the first u.s. triumph over the soviets in space. the mission had been triggered by the sputnik shock more than a decade earlier. sputnik frightened and shook up america more than anything else. the country revamped its educational system and reinvented itself as a high tech nation.
launched without a disaster. but the epic significance of this first flight even seemed to escape most of the rocky cheeky in baikonur. and it still wasn t clear if sputnik would actually reach its orbital path above the earth. orbital trajectory was approximately over us over by you know. when we saw this little point and only when we saw it did we become aware that it happened just an hour and a half the earlier we could touch it and now it was flying above our heads and would never return only then did we become conscious of the greatness of the event so we could. sputnik one was orbiting the earth. the beeping metal spear was whizzing away over the heads of the unsuspecting