That event not only set the foundation for the future exploration of space, it also revealed that a vast number of amateur astronomers could be found everywhere. This is something the seventeenth-century genius Galileo could not have expected when he invented the telescope!
那次人造衛星圓滿的發射，不僅奠定日後太空探險的基礎，也使人驚訝地發現，全世界居然散佈了如此眾多的業餘天文觀測者；這恐怕是十七世紀伽利略發明望遠鏡時所始料未及的吧！