Sputnik: The Start of the Space Race | AMNH https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/back-to-the-start-of-space-race-in-beyond-planet-earth
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1, the first man-made satellite to successfully orbit the Earth.
A life-sized model of the satellite, whose name means