At the conference held last week, video clips taken during the preparations for the launch were revealed
This year marks the anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made spacecraft launched by the former Soviet Union. The aforementioned launch is what started the space age and was one of the defining events of the 20th century.
Dr. Asif Siddiqui, professor of history at Fordham University in New York, showed the audience some historical film clips that have not been seen until now, in which we can see the Sputnik from the stages of construction to the launch.
A video clip specially prepared for the IAF by Professor Boris Chertok, the Russian space pioneer was brought to the audience. He later recounted pre-Sputnik Soviet space history. Prof. Charton turns 96 this year and is one of the last surviving witnesses of the Soviet space program before the launch.
After World War II, Stalin decided to modernize the security forces of the Soviet Union. Sergei Korolev decided to follow Stalin's wish and advance in the field of rockets - no one imagined at the time that these things would lead to the creation of Sputnik.
The theory of the conquest of space is well founded in the writings of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky who published pioneering articles in the field at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The Germans specialized between World War I and World War II and during World War II in the field. The Soviets produced V2 sites in 1945 and built an imitation of the v2 called the R1.
The great weight of the Soviet nuclear warheads required a powerful launcher that was developed in the 50s.
After the USA announced its intention to launch a scientific satellite, the Soviet Union announced to do the same and base it on its military rocket during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Tsiolkovsky's birth in 1956 and during the International Geophysical Year - 1957/58 Korlev announced that a lightweight satellite could be launched soon, thus ahead The USA in the space race. In the end, a simpler satellite was launched than the one originally planned to be launched on October 4, 1957 and amazed the citizens of the world.
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