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Salon is proud to feature content from Nautilus, a new online science monthly and print quarterly exploring the far horizons of science, mathematics and philosophy at www.nautil.us.

This first official picture of the Soviet satellite Sputnik I was issued in Moscow October 9, 1957, showing the four-antennaed satellite resting on a three-legged pedestal. (AP/Zentralbild Picture Service)

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