[FPSPACE] NK on the pad

[Sergey V. Andreev]

On Thursday 26 March 2009 09:32 am, Anatoly Zak wrote:
> The Soviet government approved the PS (Sputnik-1) program on Feb. 15, 
> 1957, due to delays with the Object D satellite. The  R-7 first flew in
> May, therefore there is no way the decision to launch PS was dictated by
> problems with warhead reentry, these reentries didn¹t happen yet:
>
> http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sputnik_design.html
>
> Anatoly Zak
This is wrong. Not on Feb 15 but later.

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