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In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a signal off the Moon and heard it come back 2.5 seconds later, and that echo was the first time anything humans made had touched another world - Space Daily

Published by Space Daily 22 August 2026 at 05:56
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In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a signal off the Moon and heard it come back 2.5 seconds later, and that echo was the first time anything humans made had touched another world - Space Daily
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The Cold War space race didn't start with Sputnik—it began with a whisper bouncing off the Moon.

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