Monday, August 20, 2007
On Your Mark…
We got a little excited here at Superhero Historians after we did the post about the flag on the moon. That seemed like a good next topic… well, not the flag on the moon, but space. Space and how we got there.
How did the Space Race start? On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union put Sputnik I into space, but it started a bit before then. In 1952 the International Council of Scientific Unions declared July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958 as the International Geophysical Year. In 1954 they called for artificial satellites to be launched that could map the Earth’s surface. The Space Race was on…
