60 Years Of The PMC - Sputnik 1

Originally posted on 5 October 1957

We congratulate the Soviet Union on launching the first ever 'satellite', which is a type of metal body which goes round and round the earth.

The satellite, called the 'sputnik' (which literally translated means a travel companion, although it is travelling alone) was launched from the Baikonur launch site, which is somewhere in the Soviet Union.

It is a great day for humanity. We predict that not only does it presage human spaceflight within the next few years, but developments of such a pace that, by the year 1980 we will all be wearing silver suits, instead of cars we will be using jet packs to propel ourselves around, we will have our holidays on Saturn or Uranus, and we won't need to eat - all our dietary requirements will be provided by cosuming a single pill once per year.

The Ninja