Thread: Beep…beep… beep - Fifty years since Sputnik.
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Old 10-08-2007
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Re: Beep…beep… beep - Fifty years since Sputnik.
On Sunday I went to listen to an amazing talk by an Australian physicist, Dr. Ken McCracken, at the Power House Museum in Sydney.

50 years on, Sputnik success still shines | COSMOS magazine

Dr. Ken McCracken was co-opted by NASA to track Sputnik from his lab in Tasmania when he was a young scientist in 1957. One of his tasks was to confirm that the signal was not a hoax.

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