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Russia marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the world's first-ever satellite, an event which changed the world forever.

Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the world entered the space age when the U.S.S.R. won the race to put the first satellite into orbit. The satellite - Sputnik 1 -was launched aboard a Soviet R-7 rocket from what is now the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

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