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From another article by Heinz Gartmann : 'und sie kreisen doch' ('and yet they are obiting'), published in 'Das neue Universum' Vol. 75, 1958, about Sputnik, Explorer and Vanguard (the 'grapefruit')

Caption: 'The Russians were first, but are keeping technical details top secret. Here the lauch of a satellite from a twin-fuselage jet plane. This picture is from a Russian movie and should be obsolete by now. Phot.:Keystone'

Apparently, in late 1957/early 1958, the whole world was desperately looking for any detailed information and pictures of the Russian satellites.

The picture on the left was published in several major German newspapers around Oct.10,1957.

The picture on the right is from the Jan .1958 issue of the BIS magazine 'Spaceflight'.

They might look a little familiar...
(OK, the left is in fact identical to the one on the 'MOUSE' page, since I couldn't scan the papers at the library, but they honestly published that picture)

Caption read something like:
Image of a satellite, published recently in the Russian magazine 'Ogoniok' (sp?), is examined by British scientists in order to get some information about the internals of Sputnik

Caption :
This diagram of a model of the satellite which the Russians have launched into space was recently published in the Sovjet 'Technology for Youth'
... by courtesy of the United Press

Another sniplet from 'Spaceflight', Jan.1958:

Something from The San Fancisco Chronicle, Dec.4,1957

(Click on sniplet for full article; please excuse for the poor quality, but that's all I got from Mr. 'Sputnik' Morgan)

P.S.: This Mr. Morgan tries to sell a nice bridge claims to own some genuine Sputnik 1 remains. His homepage is here. (Looks more like some broken clothes stand from the 70s to me - wouldn't invest a penny even if he paid for the shipping ;-) Well, at least we exchanged some nice pictures and links for information from the early space age...