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Did speeding American manhole cover beat Sputnik into space? Top boffin speaks to El Reg

Mike Shepherd

Superpowers

Superpowers spend a lot of time scrabbling for evidence that they did just about everything before anyone else, even if by accident and with no useful result. I may as well claim that my first fart in 1955 included six hydrogen molecules which made it to the interstellar void. Russia was in space first, nearly 60 years ago: apparently that still smarts.

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