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. Imagine an autumn evening in 1957. . A dark sky with thousands of stars hangs over the city. , . Everything looks as usual, but something amazing has happened today.
«», . On October 4, Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, was launched in the Soviet Union. . It was a small metal sphere with four long antennas. . It orbited Earth, completing one orbit in about an hour and a half.
. Before then, people had only dreamed of flying into space. , , ! And now the first human-made object was orbiting our planet!
. That evening, people looked at the night sky and thought about the future. . Somewhere high above them, a little satellite was flying. , . No one yet knew what discoveries awaited humanity. . But now journeys to the Moon and other planets no longer seemed impossible.
. That was how the space age began. , . The first cosmonauts, flights to the Moon, and new discoveries lay ahead.
. That night, the stars did not get any closer. .But humanity took its first step toward them.
Current translation: Imagine an autumn evening in 1957.
