Sonof, clearly a great leap forward.
Successful orbital first:
4 October 1957, 1 (Sputnik) 83.6 kg (184.3 lb)
State of the future:
1 April 2010, X-37B The 8.9-meter (10 yd)- payload bay “similar to the space shuttle” for a pair of of several hundred kilograms (450 lb) satellites.
Rab