Just before midnight on Friday October 4th, 1957, fifty two years ago today, something kinda weird happened. Remember your mother telling you whatever goes up must come down? Well something went up through the clouds that night and never came down. Well.....yes it did, sort of - but it was never designed to land, so after it circled the planet for ninety two days, it entered the earth`s atmosphere on January 4th and was quickly toast.