Is 4,000 years as long as The First spaceflight (Sputnik)?
It's about 15,000 times as long as The First spaceflight (Sputnik)
The length of The First spaceflight (Sputnik) is about 0.250 years.
(a.k.a. Sputnik 1, a.k.a. Спутник-1, a.k.a. "Satellite-1", a.k.a. Простейший Спутник-1) (1957) (total time in orbit)
Launched from Kazakhstan in 1957, Sputnik was the first artificial satellite placed into orbit around Earth, where it remained for 0.250 years. During its voyage, it traveled about 70,000,000 km (43,495,983.46 mi), completing an orbit of the planet every 0.00018 years.
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