Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

The Alaska researchers studied radio astronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and had their own tracking station in a ...

Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

Sputnik 1 was the object that began the era of space exploration when it was launched from the USSR in 1957. Many people will remember the wonder of hearing the regular 'beeps' of the radio signal ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

Both nations endeavored to perfect their satellites and launch first, and on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into ...

For many who lived through that decade, last century's "Fabulous Fifties" ended abruptly on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet ...

Getty Images Sputnik 1 was the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets in 1957 There has been the odd hiccup in the rollout. Argentinian President Alberto Fernández ...

Sputnik 1 was the object that began the era of space exploration when it was launched from the USSR in 1957. Many people will remember the wonder of hearing the regular 'beeps' of the radio signal ...