It seems the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, in 2007, took MIT students by surprise: This approximately life size reconstruction of the satellite looks like it was hastily made from wadded up aluminum foil.

Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite humanity successfully placed in orbit around the Earth, was launched on an R-7 (ICBM) booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 4 October 1957 at 10:28:04 pm, Moscow time.

Forty seven years later, on 4 October 2004, Mojave Aerospace sent SpaceShipOne above the Karman Line (100km altitude) - into space - for the second time within two weeks, capturing the Ansari X Prize.

For all you citizens of the L5 Nation, this is one of our National Holidays. Celebrate it in an appropriate manner!

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