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Soviets announce their intention to launch an earth satellite at the Legation of the USSR, Copenhagen, Denmark, during the 6th IAF, August 1955, shortly after the Americans announced their intention to launch a satellite.

• NASA: Sputnik (50th Anniversary)
  http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
• Video Documentary by The New York Times
  http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
• Newspaper Reports on Sputnik
  http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/frameset_reset.html
• Yuri Gagarin, first cosmonaut
  http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/rao/gallery/gagarin/index.html
• Rocket propulsion
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/
  lessonplans/science/shuttle_discovery.html
• Race to the moon
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/filmmore/index.html
• American Experience: "Race for the Superbomb"
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/index.html
• Innovation: Life, Inspired
  http://www.pbs.org/innovation
• NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars"
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/station/
• Red Files: Secret Soviet Moon Mission
  http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/moon/
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
  http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education%20and%20
  Public%20Programs/For%20Students/

• Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=93#
• Alan Shepard at Lunar Landing Research Facility
  http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/EL-1996-00219.jpeg
• Edwin Buzz Aldrin at Lunar Landing Research Facility
  http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/EL-1996-00217.jpeg
• 25th Anniversary of Apollo 11: 1969-1994
  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11.html

July 29, 1955. Announcement of plans for the building and launching of the world's first man-made satellite. (photo courtesy NASA)

Annoucement of intention to launch an earth satellite during the IGY by the Soviets. At the Legation of the USSR, Copenhagen, Denmark, during the 6th IAF, August 1955, shortly after the Americans announced their intentions to launch a satellite. (photo courtesy NASA)