• Question: What is the name of the 1st satellite sent into space?

    Asked by Jimbo to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 8 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      It’s called Sputnik and it was sent into space by what is now Russia, in 1957!! That is a long time ago, imagine how hard it was to do all the maths to figure out how to do this when there were no computers around.

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