Build Your Own LEGO Sputnik to Commemorate the Start of the Space Race
Fifty-six years ago today, humanity entered the Space Age as a 23-inch radio-pulsing metal sphere dubbed Sputnik 1 entered LEO. As it sped around the Earth at 18,000 mph, Sputnik set off a firestorm of envy from the Americans which directly incited a Space Race that would last until we put a man on the…
Space & Spaceflight
Peter Reid & Tim Goddard
