Sputnik legacy timeline

a timeline visualization that captures all 150 world wide space flights. the data is sortable by year, timespan, planet & country. an additional “Inside Sputnik” provides a detailed view of Sputnik 1 & all of its parts.
[link: ewsweek.com|via maxkiesler.com]
see also onlife file usage timeline & AJAX timeline visualization & 400 years of royal society & world history timeline & timeline of trends & time-based flickr tags.
(Via information aesthetics.)
The Russian name “Спутник” means literally “co-traveler”, “traveling companion” or “satellite”, and its R-7 launch vehicle was designed initially to carry nuclear warheads.
Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957. The satellite was 58 cm (about 23 in) in diameter and weighed approximately 83.6 kg (about 183 lb). Each of its elliptical orbits around the Earth took about 96 minutes. Monitoring of the satellite was done by Amateur radio operators.
(Via Wikipedia: Sputnik program.)
