On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:59:04 GMT, Hayley wrote:
is sputnik still orbiting us? if so i think it would be nice to bring it
back and put it in a museum.
probably be quite expensive and hard to justify resorce.

There were several Sputniks (Russian for satellite ?not sure)
One of them contained a dog named Laika (in Sputnik 2)
It would have been nice if they had brought her(?) back

'twas in my youth (!) and I never forgave the Ruskies for that, they even
issued a commemorative stamp showing the dog trapped in the satellite
(sadly, I was a stamp collector as well !)

We went out to watch it (and S1) on several occasions
(although, in retrospect, I think it was probably the spent rocket motor(s)
that we saw !)
Silver linings tho', one night of watching and I saw my first aurora !
(Much easier to see them now with internet advance warnings !!