The Soviet Union inaugurated the “Space Age” with its launch
of , the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957.

The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for
“fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time
from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.

Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds
and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Traveling
at 18,000 miles an hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee
(farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (nearest
point) of 143 miles.

From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida,
the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 was launched into
an orbit around the earth.

The photo, received in Hawaii, takes nearly 40 minutes to
transmit.

Released by NASA in September, the first photograph ever
taken of the earth by a U.S. satellite.

One of the first pictures of Earth transmitted.

 
CARLATA BRADLEY    
    
    
 
  

Dave Brubeck was a jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded
as a foremost exponent of cool jazz.

Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US
Army, but was spared from combat service when a Red Cross
show he had played at became a hit. Within the US Army,
Brubeck formed one of the first racially diverse bands.

Brubeck died of heart failure on December 5, 2012, in
Norwalk, Connecticut, one day before his 92nd birthday.

TIM MAGUIRE

The concept of "Miranda rights" was enshrined in U.S. law following
the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found
that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda
had been violated during his arrest and trial for armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape of a young woman.

Miranda was subsequently retried and convicted.

On January 31, 1976, a fight erupted at the Amapola Bar at 233
South 2nd Street in downtown Phoenix in which Miranda was
stabbed. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Banner Good
Samaritan Medical Center. He was 34.

The grave of Ernesto Arturo Miranda in the City of Mesa Cemetery.

The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot (above) depicts our
planet as a nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size
of a pixel. 

On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,  
the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and
snapped the first-ever pictures of the planets from its perch at
that time beyond Neptune. This is the last image Voyager 1 ever
beamed back after which the cameras were turned off to save
power and memory.

Artist impression of Voyager-1.