Today, 68 years ago, on December 7, 1957 (Calendar, October 16, 1957), the first satellite-carrying rocket crashed. On December 7, 1957, the Soviet Academy of Sciences issued a statement that the first man-made satellite-carrying rocket of the Soviet Union had flown around the Earth for fifty-eight days, and on December 1, it fell sharply into the dense atmosphere, then burned down, and the debris landed on the Alaska and the western coast of North America. This was determined by Soviet scientists according to observation data. The satellite-carrying rocket began to drop significantly at midnight on November 30, and the time of a week around the Earth was rapidly shortened. On December 1, when it was running along the Irkutsk, Chukchi Peninsula,