Everyone remembers the 185-pound silver satellite that kickstarted the space race, but what about the rocket that got it there?

The launch the world's first satellite was the birth of the Space Age. Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 sent a shockwave through the American public.

Sputnik 1 was lofted by an R-7 rocket, which consisted of four first-stage boosters — known as Blocks B, V, G and D — strapped onto a core second stage (Block A).

That would be a piece of the rocket that brought the real Sputnik to space — estimated to cost $35 million to $69 million now, or so he says.

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