Apollo 7 Turns 58: The Test Flight That Led to the Moon
On October 11, 1968, Apollo 7 put three astronauts in orbit and proved the spacecraft worked. Head colds, live TV and a …
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Sputnik Turns 69: The Beep That Led to ARPA and the Internet
On October 4, 1957, an 83.6 kg sphere beeped over the Earth. Sputnik 1 started the space race and led to the creation of …
Red telephone: 63 years of the hotline that was never a phone
On 08/30/1963, the Moscow-Washington hotline went live. The first message was a test pangram. And there never was a red …