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September 9th 07, 04:01 AM posted to sci.space.policy

Hop David

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Sputnik-1

In the beginning of _October Sky_, Homer Hickam is amazed and inspired
by the sight of a point of light moving across the night sky.

James Oberg writes in the October _Astronomy_ magazine that Sputnik was
never brighter than 4th or 5th magnitude. Evidently what Homer saw was
Sputnik's massive carrier rocket.

October 4 will be the 50th Anniversary.

Hop

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