Sputnik was launched from Soviet Russia, at a placed called Baikonur Cosmodrome. While Russia still lays claim to the Cosmodrome, that area is now deep within Kazakhstan.
people put the interests of their region over that of the country
Gravity
An example of a headline in 1958 was, Little Rock Arkansas was ordered by the Supreme Court to integrate its schools. Another example of a headline in 1958 was that the first US satellite was put into orbit.
The Republic of Fredonia is no longer existent. A group of Anglo Texas settlers created the makeshift country in an attempt to secede from Mexico in 1826. It was in Nacogdoches, Texas. The rebellion was put down by Mexican troops a year later.
Sectionalism can lead to separatism in a country. Sectionalism is one's loyalty to the interest of one's region of a country, rather than the whole country.
Russia (Sputnik 1)
Sputnik was put into orbit on October 4, 1957.
Sputnik 1 was the first satellite ever put into orbit. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Doesn't work like that, a satellite can't orbit one country. It can stay in geostationary orbit over some, but that's it. Sputnik 1 orbited the whole Earth.
Sputnik
The Russians put the first satellite into orbit named sputnik.
The first man made object put into Earth orbit.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into orbit. They launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.
The very first satellite put into orbit was the Russian satellite Sputnik put into orbit on October 4th, 1957.
If they can put a satellite in orbit they can launch a H-bomb at us too. It wasn't quite true with Sputnik 1, but it was with Sputnik 2.
The first satellite put into orbit was named Sputnik 1. It was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
The worlds' first artificial satelite was put in orbit by Soviet Union in 1957, named Sputnik 1. Since then thousands of prolab satelites were put in orbit by several countries around the globe.