This could be your chance to make Sputnik beep again.

It was on Oct. 4, 1957, just 60 years ago, that the Soviet Union launched the first Earth satellite, Sputnik. It was little more than an aluminum beach ball with a radio transmitter that sent out a regular series of radio beeps, but it expanded the Cold War to outer space, shook up American technological smugness and probably helped John Kennedy get elected president in 1960.

On Wednesday, just ahead of the 60th anniversary of its launch, a replica of the famous satellite is going on sale at Bonhams in New York City as part of their “Air and Space Sale.” Another item on the block is the harness, complete with camera, and an oxygen tank for the rhesus monkeys that preceded America’s Mercury astronauts into space.

The original Sputnik fell out of orbit and burned up three months after its launch. But test models and engineering replicas, allegedly from the laboratory where the legendary Sergei Korolev built them, have surfaced in museums and collections in recent years — “some more authentic than others,” said Robert Pearlman, a journalist and space historian who runs the website Collectspace.