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When the satellite “Sputnik” was first launched in space in October of 1957, the New York Times gave the name’s literal meaning as, “something that is traveling with a traveler” with the explanation, “the traveler is the earth, traveling through space, and the companion ‘traveling with’ it is the satellite.
