what is Sputniks legacy?
More up-to-the-minute national and world news from The Associated Press RELATED More up-to-the-minute national and world news from The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago today, the world shrank and humanity’s view of Earth and the cosmos expanded. Russian workers carry a model of a Sputnik satellite at the Russian Trade Fair in London in 1961. The first Sputnik was launched 50 years ago today. Sputnik, the first manmade satellite to circle the globe, was launched by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957, giving birth to the Space Age. And what followed were changes to everyday life that people now take for granted. What we see on television, how we communicate and how we pay for what we buy all have changed with the birth of satellites. Communications satellites helped bring celebrations and wars from thousands of miles away into our living rooms. Weather satellites show us whether we need to carry an umbrella or flee from a hurrica
