What year did Sputnik launch?
There were more than one Sputnik missions. Which one did you mean? Sputnik 1 launched 10/4/1957 Sputnik 2 launched 11/3/1957 Sputnik 3 launched 5/15/1958 Sputnik 4 launched 5/15/1960 Sputnik 5 launched 8/19/1960. Sputnik 6 launched 12/1/1960 Sputnik 7 launched 2/4/1961 Sputnik 8 launched 2/12/1961 Sputnik 9 launched 3/9/1961 Sputnik 10 launched 3/10/1961 Its really quite amazing how much information can be found online. And how quickly this kind of data can be found. But of course, its always much easier to just ask a question and let someone else do the looking.