" Just 152 mm (6 in) in diameter and weighing just 1.4 kg (3 lb), Vanguard 1 was described by then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as, "The grapefruit satellite."[3] Vanguard 1 is the oldest artificial satellite still in space"
9 posted on 12/10/2017 2:44:06 PM PST by outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
