1/ Thread on Sputnik, launched 67 years ago. Here's my take based on archives: Soviet engineers used their media to put out stories that would alarm the US gov into announcing a satellite project, which they took to Politburo to fund their own project, Sputnik: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Despite many revelations on the origins of Sputnik in the 1990s, there still remained some important unanswered questions. For example, we know that c…
📌 thanks! (Also: love your Spaceflight books)
2/ I curated a collection of translated primary source documents from Russian archives on Sputnik. See here @thewilsoncenter.bsky.socialwww.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne...#sputnik#soviethistory
Documents added to DigitalArchive.org provide a look at the origins of Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite.