The R-7 completes a successful full-range flight

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1. Story
2. After a series of failures the R-7 flew a full-range test from Tyuratam to the Kamchatka impact area, becoming the first intercontinental ballistic missile to work. The Soviet announcement of the achievement attracted comparatively little attention abroad. Six weeks later the same vehicle placed a satellite in orbit and the world paid a great deal of attention, which is a useful lesson about what makes a capability legible.
3. Knowledge
4. The intercontinental ballistic missile
5. The R-7 Semyorka
6. Baikonur Cosmodrome
7. The R-7 completes a successful full-range flight
8. Connections
9. The R-7 Semyorka
10. The intercontinental ballistic missile
11. Baikonur Cosmodrome
12. The intercontinental ballistic missile
13. The R-7 completes a successful full-range flight
14. Sputnik 1 is launched
15. Mutual assured destruction
16. Second-strike survivability
17. The R-7 Semyorka
18. The R-7 completes a successful full-range flight
19. Sputnik 1 is launched
20. The R-7 completes a successful full-range flight
21. Sputnik 1 is launched
22. Evidence
23. Named as the source class for the Sputnik launch date, the R-7 as both first ICBM and first orbital launcher, and the American institutional response. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the satellite's mass, orbital parameters and transmitter frequencies are deliberately not quoted in this pack for that reason.