{"id":5520,"date":"2013-10-04T23:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sputnik-launches-the-space-age\/"},"modified":"2013-10-04T23:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:18:43","slug":"sputnik-launches-the-space-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sputnik-launches-the-space-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik Launches the Space Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2249\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2F446px-Sputnik_1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2249]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2250\" title=\"Sputnik 1\" alt=\"Sputnik 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/c53af__446px-Sputnik_1-223x300.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>October 4, 1957<\/p>\n<p>The first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSputnik_1\" target=\"_blank\">Sputnik 1<\/a>, is launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, marking what is now considered the beginning of the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpace_Age\" target=\"_blank\">Space Age<\/a>. Surprising the world with its successful launch, Sputnik triggered the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpace_Race\" target=\"_blank\">Space Race<\/a> between the Soviet Union and United States ushering in an era of rapid advancement in the field of space exploration. After 3 months in orbit, <a title=\"Sputnik 1 Falls\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F01%2F04%2Fsputnik-1-falls%2F\">Sputnik reentered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burned up on January 4, 1958<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F10%2F03%2Ftransistor-patented%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Transistor Patented<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/720fd__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/04\/sputnik-launches-the-space-age\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 4, 1957 The first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth, Sputnik 1, is launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, marking what is now considered the beginning of the Space Age. Surprising the world with its successful launch, Sputnik triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and United States ushering in an era of rapid advancement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[230,1509,2229],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-launches","tag-space","tag-sputnik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}