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It didn't First off, sputnik was a "family name" for a series of satellites, but none that went to the Moon. Sputnik only orbited the earth.
Sputnik did not launch from the moon, and it did not land on the moon.
The moon. First man made Sputnik
The first satellite in orbit was launched by the Russians on October 4, 1957. The satellite was Sputnik I, and it spurred the USA to launch their own satellite, Explorer I, on January 31, 1958.Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957, and American astronauts landed on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. This means there were approximately 11 years and 9 months between the two significant events in space exploration.
The very first successful satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched October 4, 1957, and hailed the dawn of the space age. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface July 20, 1969, just shy of 12 years later.
There are so many things that have happened in the past 100 years, but here a just a few: modern medicine, the first man on the moon, the first satellite (sputnik) put into orbit, the first jet-engine airplanes, the first atomic bomb, the first hydrogen bomb, armoured tanks, and various forms of other bombs and missiles.
The launching of the satellite Sputnik, the first satellite in the world.
In the 1950's no one was capable of getting to the moon. In fact the very first satelite wasn't even put into orbit until the Russians put SPUTNIK in orbit in 1957.
The first artificial Earth satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957the moon, because it orbits the earthThe first satellite launched was 'Sputnik' - the first communications satellite was 'Telstar' launched on Oct 27 1962
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