[TMRA] UK Museum Wants to Hear from Those Who Remember Sputnik Launch

[Stephen Bellner]

 From ARRL.org

UK Museum Wants to Hear from Those Who Remember Sputnik Launch

03/27/2017

As part of an effort to tell the story of the International
Geophysical Year (IGY) 60 years ago, a Cambridge, England, museum
wants to hear from anyone who remembers the Soviet Union's launch
of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. Many radio amateurs and
shortwave listeners (SWLs) of the era were among those thrilled
to receive the satellite's 20 MHz beacon.

The Scott Polar Research Institute Polar Museum at Cambridge
University will mark the IGY anniversary later this year. The IGY
was a global effort to better map and understand the planet, and
it put heavy emphasis on Antarctica as well as studies of space
and the atmosphere. The Polar Museum exhibition recount the story
of Sputnik, the establishment of scientific bases in Antarctica,
and the individuals involved in the IGY.

"Although largely forgotten now, the International Geophysical
Year involved many thousands of people from all of the world and
from all walks of life," said Museum Curator Charlotte Connelly.
"We'd like to capture some of those experiences in our exhibition
and show the phenomenal reach of this important moment for global
science."

Contact Connelly via e-mail --museum at spri.cam.ac.uk  -- if you
were among those monitoring and/or spotvHÂÚtsu,Ts first
artificial satellite. The exhibit, "The Year that Made
Antarctica: People, Politics, and the International Geophysical
Year," opens on April 26.

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