本刊综合报道，10月4日，我国首届“世界空间周”庆祝大会在北京大学百周年纪念讲堂召开，拉开了世界空间周系列活动的序幕。 将每年的10月4～10日定为“世界空间周”，起因于1999年7月召开的联合国第三次外空大会。大会期间，与会专家考虑到1957年10月4日，人类第一颗人造地球 The comprehensive coverage of this magazine, October 4, China’s first “World Space Week” celebration of the centennial anniversary of Peking University was held, opened the prelude to a series of activities of the World Space Week. The annual October 4 to October 10 as the “World Space Week”, resulting from July 1999 the United Nations held the third space conference. During the conference, the participating experts considered the first artificial earth of mankind on October 4, 1957