On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit, and launched humanity into the Space Age. Since then, space has become a very crowded place. Dr. Jonathan McDowell joins us in the FSU Planetarium to reflect on what's been going on in space over the last 60 years.
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Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist working with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as part of the Chandra X-Ray Center, which operates the space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory. In addition to his day job, he also studies the history of the space program and produces the email-distributed newsletter Jonathan's Space Report.