Remember when a Soviet spacecraft landed in Wisconsin?

On January 2, 1959, the Soviet Union kicked off its Luna program, sometimes called Lunik by the Western media, with the launch of Luna 1. This ...,When Sputnik Crashed in Wisconsin - Smithsonian Magazine.

Korabl-Sputnik 1, called Sputnik 4 in the West, wasn’t one of the Soviet Union’s greatest triumphs of the early space age. Following a successful mission, a flawed retrofire burn kept the spacecraft aloft until its orbit decayed, sprinkling radioactive metallic debris over Wisconsin.

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Remember when a Soviet spacecraft landed in Wisconsin?

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