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Podcast: The Power of God's Love
Episode: Sputnik was the first in space, but we still won the race
Description: It was only 22 inches around. And it only weighed 184 pounds. But it might as well have been a lead weight the size of Pluto. Because the news and reports of it fell on America like a lead weight. And it had the cutest, little name. Sputnik. Â
On this day, October 4, back in 1957, Russian launched Sputnik into space.
It zoomed around the Earth at about 18000 miles per hour. So, it made a full circle just about every hour and a half.
And the little satellite/rocket ship was close enough to Earth t...