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===Replicas=== In 1959, the Soviet Union donated a replica of Sputnik to the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/s/photo/detail/704/0070484.html|title=UN Visitors View Model of USSR Sputnik|first=UN|last=Photo/MB|newspaper=United Nations Photo |date=1 December 1959|publisher=UN Multimedia|access-date=23 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923145149/http://www.unmultimedia.org/s/photo/detail/704/0070484.html|archive-date=23 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> There are other full-size Sputnik replicas (with varying degrees of accuracy) on display in locations around the world, including the [[National Air and Space Museum]] in the United States,<ref name="CSTopTen" /> the [[Science Museum, London|Science Museum]] in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co40283/replica-sputnik-i-satellite|title=Replica Sputnik I satellite|publisher=Science Museum Group|access-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref> the [[Powerhouse Museum]] in Australia,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collection.maas.museum/object/156934|title=Replica of the Sputnik-1 Satellite|publisher=Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref> and outside the Russian embassy in Spain.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} Three one-third scale student-built replicas of Sputnik 1 were deployed from the [[Mir|Mir space station]] between 1997 and 1999. The first, named [[Sputnik 40]] to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, was deployed in November 1997.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27927297/daily_record/|title=Russians Launch Sputnik replica, Trigger Memories of First Satellite|last1=Stradling|first1=Richard|date=November 17, 1997|newspaper=Daily Record|location=Morristown, New Jersey|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[Sputnik 41]] was launched a year later, and [[Sputnik 99]] was deployed in February 1999. A fourth replica was launched, but never deployed, and was destroyed when Mir was [[Deorbit of Mir|deorbited]].<ref name="CSTopTen" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sputnik-40.htm |title=Sputnik 40, 41, 99 (RS 17, 18, 19) |first=Gunter |last=Krebs |publisher=Gunter's Space Page |access-date=28 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235250/http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sputnik-40.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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