Launch vehicles flown under the Soviet space program before its 1991 dissolution, including the R-7-derived boosters that opened the space age and carried the first satellites and cosmonauts to orbit. Recorded separately from modern Russia per this atlas's own voice standard, which marks predecessor-institution facts with an explicit status note rather than a silent anachronism.
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1. Wikipedia: Sputnik 1
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It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
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