Word: heemskeerk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, on Oct. 4, 1957. Above all, it proves that a satellite several hundred miles above the earth can pick up a signal as weak as that of the single-engine plane. Said one of the rescued men, George Heemskeerk of Brampton, Ont.: "We should have been cooperating like this years ago. This is something that can save people's lives." Heemskeerk and his companions went down while they themselves were looking for a plane that vanished July 19, only two weeks before the Soviet satellite began working...
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