Sputnik+-+Gibbons

​  The sputnik -1 was the first of its kind it was an artificial satellite that sent out beeping signals it was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4th, 1957, it was not the creation of just one person but a team of scientist help invent and build the sputnik. It was launched during the cold war, it weighed approximately 183 pounds. With the launch of the sputnik 1 this started the space age, also the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. the sputnik one amazed many people with its launch. After the Soviet Union launched the satellite they realized that they could use the same things they used to power the satellite to power a bomb, and this scared the united stated into believing that if they launched the bomb at us it would be MAS (mutually assured destruction) and it was related to the cold war because the cold war was not a war of fighting, but threats, and the space