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Forum:	Hardware %7CAMP%7C Flown Items
Topic:	Glenn Beck%E2%80%99s Sputnik satellite mystery

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]Yes, that is certainly a plausible explanation. As mentioned in the interview, I could see a scenario where this began as a partially constructed fourth engineering model, which for whatever reason, was not needed and so was never completed for testing. We know that after the launch, the Soviets toured with several different models of Sputnik, so perhaps this one was cleaned up and fitted with spare parts to join the later replicas on display.[/B][/QUOTE]
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Rick Mulheirn

Intriguing story Robert. In my opinion, for what it is worth, the Sputnik featured was a display model comprising period correct parts... but not all of the parts.

For display purposes you would not need the majority of parts from an original, more specifically the internal components.

The fact it weighs less than one third of the other known authentic models would suggest to me that this was cobbled together for display purposes only.

If or when more discoveries are made about the model in question I hope we get to hear about it.

Robert Pearlman

Yes, that is certainly a plausible explanation.

As mentioned in the interview, I could see a scenario where this began as a partially constructed fourth engineering model, which for whatever reason, was not needed and so was never completed for testing. We know that after the launch, the Soviets toured with several different models of Sputnik, so perhaps this one was cleaned up and fitted with spare parts to join the later replicas on display.

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