Happy Sputnik Day

Posted Thu Oct 4, 2007 in

Fifty years ago, the Russians successfully launched Sputnik I. I was four-years old and can barely remember anything about it.

A friend remarked that it’s a shame we haven’t explored the final frontier more than we have. I expected we would have been far further along and never expected we’d still not have approached Mars.

  1. Remember “baby moon” hubcaps for cars- named more or less for Sputnik because of their shiny, (hemi)spherical shape? They were popular up into the ’70s. Most people have long since forgotten why they were called that.

    — Dazed n Confused    4 October 2007, 19:18    #

  2. I used to have “baby-moon’ hubcaps on my ’64 Chevy Impala. I painted the wheels gloss black and those babies really shone.

    They were good looking on a young man’s vehicle.

    Of course, I had 8-track tape and a color-organ in that car too. :) I did vehicular stereo before it was “sexy.”

    — ruminator    5 October 2007, 05:51    #