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A few of the words
- BEEP
- Sputnik's transmitters broadcast on 20.005 and 40.002 MHz, two simple frequencies, but radio operators around the world stayed up through the night just to hear them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ALTITUDE
- Sputnik 1 traveled in an elliptical orbit ranging from about 134 to 584 miles above Earth, completing each loop in roughly 96 minutes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SPHERE
- The satellite's gleaming aluminum shell was just 23 inches across, barely larger than a basketball, yet it was visible to the naked eye as it crossed the sky.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COSMOS
- The Russian word 'kosmos' shares its ancient Greek root with the English 'cosmos,' reflecting a shared human longing to make sense of the vast, ordered universe above.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Sputnik Circles the Earth: The Space Age Begins: a free online word search
Sputnik word search, free. On October 4, 1957, a silver sphere rose into the dark and changed everything. No cost, no catch.
About Sputnik Circles the Earth: The Space Age Begins
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, and humanity was no longer earthbound in the same way. Roughly the size of a beach ball and weighing about 184 pounds, the polished metal sphere arced into low orbit and sent back a steady radio beep that anyone with the right equipment could hear crackling through the night sky. That small, repeating signal was the sound of a door swinging open, the Space Age had begun.
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- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft color on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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