The National Geographic Magazine, December 1957

This issue contains about 25 pages of content inspired by the October 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, including an article titled How Man-Made Satellites Can Affect Our Lives by Joseph Kaplan (page 791), and two short pieces called National Geographic Satellite Finder (p. 809) and New Chart for Watchers of the Skies by Allan C. Fisher Jr (p. 811). The Russian space program does not figure prominently in the articles, but Sputnik was definitely the spark behind these attempts to answer the public's questions about the impact that satellites would have on the quality of life and the states of various sciences.

In addition to a few brief mentions of "the pioneering artificial satellite," there are two photos of Sputnik 1's spent casing streaking through the night sky, one of which can be seen at right. Note that to avoid breaking the binding of the magazine, this image was photographed rather than scanned; luckily the original wasn't all that great, so very little was lost in the translation :)