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Anyone interested in the shirt can find it here: https://store.todayifoundout.com/products/beep-beep-sputnik-2
On October 4, 1957 at 7:28 PM Greenwich Mean Time, a massive R7 Semyorka
rocket roared off the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
and soared into the night sky. The following morning, the world awoke to
the stunning news: the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik 1, the world’s
first artificial satellite, into earth orbit. In Washington, DC,
American politicians and military officials flew into a panic. Not only
had the supposedly backwards Soviets achieved spaceflight years ahead of
Western predictions, but the same R7 rocket which had placed Sputnik in
orbit could also place a nuclear warhead anywhere in the Continental
United States with less than 30 minutes’ warning. Worse still, unlike a
manned strategic bomber, such intercontinental ballistic missiles could
not be intercepted or shot down. Overnight, outer space became a new
battlefield in the escalating Cold War. As the American government and
aerospace industry geared up to compete in this newly-declared Space
Race, intelligence agencies like the CIA sought to learn all they could
about Soviet space technology. This proved a daunting task, for the
closed nature of Soviet society made it all but impossible to infiltrate
using human agents. As a result, analysts were forced to glean what
little they could from grainy spy plane and satellite photographs and
intercepted telemetry signals. But then, in late 1959, an unlikely
opportunity suddenly presented itself: a chance to “kidnap” and examine a
genuine Soviet space probe. This is the audacious story of the Great
Lunik Heist.
Author: Gilles Messier
Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen
0:00 Shirt
0:13 Intro
7:14 Planning the Luna Space Heist
8:46 Kidnapping the Spacecraft
13:32 The Results of the Heist
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Anyone interested in the shirt can find it here: https://store.todayifoundout.com/products/beep-beep-sputnik-2
On October 4, 1957 at 7:28 PM Greenwich Mean Time, a massive R7 Semyorka
rocket roared off the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
and soared into the night sky. The following morning, the world awoke to
the stunning news: the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik 1, the world’s
first artificial satellite, into earth orbit. In Washington, DC,
American politicians and military officials flew into a panic. Not only
had the supposedly backwards Soviets achieved spaceflight years ahead of
Western predictions, but the same R7 rocket which had placed Sputnik in
orbit could also place a nuclear warhead anywhere in the Continental
United States with less than 30 minutes’ warning. Worse still, unlike a
manned strategic bomber, such intercontinental ballistic missiles could
not be intercepted or shot down. Overnight, outer space became a new
battlefield in the escalating Cold War. As the American government and
aerospace industry geared up to compete in this newly-declared Space
Race, intelligence agencies like the CIA sought to learn all they could
about Soviet space technology. This proved a daunting task, for the
closed nature of Soviet society made it all but impossible to infiltrate
using human agents. As a result, analysts were forced to glean what
little they could from grainy spy plane and satellite photographs and
intercepted telemetry signals. But then, in late 1959, an unlikely
opportunity suddenly presented itself: a chance to “kidnap” and examine a
genuine Soviet space probe. This is the audacious story of the Great
Lunik Heist.
Author: Gilles Messier
Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen
0:00 Shirt
0:13 Intro
7:14 Planning the Luna Space Heist
8:46 Kidnapping the Spacecraft
13:32 The Results of the Heist
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