Comments on: Sputnik for sale! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sputnik-for-sale/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:48:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gary M. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sputnik-for-sale/#comment-1013067 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:48:33 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=47851#comment-1013067 The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas has in their collection a Sputnik I which they the describe as “Authentic, Flight-Ready Backup”. Also a Sputnik II which is described as “Engineering Model, Made by the USSR”. I wonder now what I was looking at in Hutchinson.

“Only three of the original Sputniks remain in private hands. Of the other two, one is outside Moscow at the Energia Corporate Museum, while the other is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.”

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