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How Sputnik III is Orbiting Earth

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09794.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 21 May 1958 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 20.7 x 25.4 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto of Sputnik III's orbit around earth illustrated by J. Carlton dated May 21, 1958. The illustration displays the Russian satellites orbits in relation to three satellites belonging to the United States also orbiting the Earth.

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