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TIL in the early 1960s, the United States shot 480 000 000 copper needles into space
(en.wikipedia.org)
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I'm not sure they actually shot that many before cancelling the project
Yeah, I couldn't see in the article how many went up. I seem to have read somewhere it was in the hundreds of millions.