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The Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit, Sputnik, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
Sputnik is the spark for Homer's impulse to build rockets, but in rural West Virginia the know-how and materials are almost nonexistent.
Believe it or not, the wondrous Sputnik satellite of 1957 compares to a 1990s communications satellite as those obsolete IBM computer cards compare to modern disk storage units.
One month later, Sputnik 2 carried Laika the dog in orbit for seven days.
Sputnik was launched on Oct. 4, 1957--the first man-made object to orbit Earth.