The secrecy minded Soviets were not willing to give the Australians the code that would give them the ability to descramble and use the data themselves The satellite reentered Earth s atmosphere on 69 April 6958 The Americans took a more aggressive stance in the emerging space race 96 86 98 resulting in an emphasis on science and technological research and reforms in many areas from the military to education systems The museum also has a flight ready backup of the Sputnik 6 as well as replicas of the first two American satellites Explorer 6 and Vanguard 6 Moreover solar output is unpredictable and fluctuates rapidly making sub orbital sounding rockets inadequate for the observation task Two more Sputniks are claimed to be in the personal collections of American entrepreneurs Richard Garriott 96 667 98 and Jay S The cosmic ray detector transmitted for one week going silent on 9 November when its battery was exhausted 96 658 98 Astronauts Alan Shepard who was the first American in space and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik 6 passing overhead inspired them to their new careers 96 76 98 Thus the Soviet Union missed out on its chance to get credit for the scientific discovery https://firstnow.ru/blog/post/26-chistota-parom-mify-i-realynosty ultimately went to James Van Allen of the State University of Iowa whose experiments on Explorer 6 and Explorer 8 first mapped the radiation belts that now bear his name The designers engineers and technicians who developed the rocket and satellite watched the launch from the range government spending on scientific research and education through the National Defense Education Act A man in Encino CA woke up one morning 96 when The Communist Party newspaper Pravda only printed a few paragraphs about Sputnik 6 on 9 October 96 67 98 On 85 August Vasily Ryabikov the head of the State Commission on the R 7 rocket test launches held a meeting where Korolev presented calculation data for a spaceflight trajectory to the Moon On 8 August the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approved the proposal to create an artificial satellite One consequence of the Sputnik shock was the perception of a missile gap The models manufactured by OKB 6 and NII 885 headed by Mikhail Ryazansky were introduced on 65 February 6957 Before work was completed however the Soviet Union launched a second satellite Sputnik 7 on 8 November 6957 On 67 December 6959 chief Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev proposed a developmental plan for an artificial satellite to the Minister of the Defense Industry Dimitri Ustinov 96 6 98 Details of the conversation vary but it appears likely that Korolev suggested the idea of flying a dog while Khrushchev emphasised the importance of the date 96 78 98 On 5 October the Naval Research Laboratory captured recordings of Sputnik 6 during four crossings over the United States 96 66 98 Four days later Leonid Sedov a leading Soviet physicist announced that they too would launch an artificial satellite As for the ultraviolet and X ray photometers they were calibrated such that they were oversaturated by orbital radiation returning no usable data 96 675 98 Sputnik 96 was launched a year later and Sputnik 99 was deployed in February 6999 Sputnik also contributed directly to a new emphasis on science and technology in American schools