{"id":164,"date":"2006-01-05T04:44:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2006\/01\/05\/notes-from-the-technology-underground-the-nuclear-potato-cannon-part-2\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T04:44:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T08:44:44","slug":"notes-from-the-technology-underground-the-nuclear-potato-cannon-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2006\/01\/05\/notes-from-the-technology-underground-the-nuclear-potato-cannon-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Technology Underground: The Nuclear Potato Cannon Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
As described in an earlier post (see above) in 1957, the Soviet scientists launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan. But was it the first man made object shot into space? Maybe, maybe not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n