Comments on: Happy Birthday, Sputnik!

By: GeekAlerts

GeekAlerts — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:04:03 +0000

I totally agree with you Lasse.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:22:03 +0000

How come soviet space names are so much cooler than the americans? “Sputnik” sounds cool even today, while “Explorer 1″ sounds like a Ford from 1996

Other cool soviet space names: Luna, Venera, Zond, Proton. Now those are proper spaceships.

By: Kerozene

Kerozene — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:29:14 +0000

Sputnik is that old? wow.

Hmm i suddenly crave potato.

By: GeekAlerts

GeekAlerts — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:18:34 +0000

Thanks for the link Kurt!

I noticed now that Google has a Sputnik logo for this special day.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:10:49 +0000

Oh man! I had a big long post about how Sputnik didn’t go into geocentric orbit. Then I realized what I thought geocentric referred to was actually geosynchronous. So to prevent someone else from looking like a moron, I’m posting this and providing this helpful link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_orbit