Seeing what you believe is not always the same as believing...
Seeing what you believe is not always the same as believing what you see, and it took fifty years for that revelation. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched into space the first satellite. People across the globe stared into the night sky to watch the blinking man-made object arc overhead. They were awed by science, watching the celestial marvel streak across the heavens. It has now been revealed by the designer of the spacecraft, Sergei Korolyov, that what was being viewed was the second stage of the rocket, not the 184-pound sphere itself that was invisible to the naked eye.
