{"id":379906,"date":"2017-09-26T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2496b3e561bd579ab4924a7bd21c5229"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:42:00","slug":"sputnik-60th-anniversary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=379906","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik 60th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/09\/sputnik_60th_anniversary\/17137145-6-eng-GB\/Sputnik_60th_anniversary_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 4 October 2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of the first satellite: Sputnik. The Soviet spacecraft was only equipped with a simple transmitter, but its incessant beeping sent shockwaves around the world and its flight marked the beginning of the space race.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday\u2019s sophisticated satellites can trace their origins back to Sputnik and astronauts still begin their journey from the same launch site in Baikonur.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis report contains footage of the Sputnik launch, an interview (and set-up shots) in the private museum of RSC Energia \u2013 the company that built Sputnik \u2013 as well as interior and drone shots of the Cosmonautics museum in Moscow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nB-roll contains additional soundbites, including from Alexei Leonov \u2013 the first man to walk in space (in Russian). Interviews in French or Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/09\/sputnik_60th_anniversary\/17137145-6-eng-GB\/Sputnik_60th_anniversary_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 4 October 2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of the first satellite: Sputnik. The Soviet spacecraft was only equipped with a simple transmitter, but its incessant beeping sent shockwaves around the world and its flight marked the beginning of the space race.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday&rsquo;s sophisticated satellites can trace their origins back to Sputnik and astronauts still begin their journey from the same launch site in Baikonur.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis report contains footage of the Sputnik launch, an interview (and set-up shots) in the private museum of RSC Energia &ndash; the company that built Sputnik &ndash; as well as interior and drone shots of the Cosmonautics museum in Moscow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nB-roll contains additional soundbites, including from Alexei Leonov &ndash; the first man to walk in space (in Russian). Interviews in French or Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379907,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379906\/revisions\/379907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}