In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it? For over a hundred ...

The satellite consists of the third stage of the rocket that shot it into space. Russia’s first satellite ... died from overheating on November 3, 1957, when ground engineers failed to notice ...

O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

On October 4, 1957 they beat the Americans to the ... Kazakhstan as the first manned satellite in space. After entering space, the Vostok 1 moved to orbit the planet. The cosmonaut onboard ...

In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands.

4, 1957 Russia Friday night announced the first successful launching of ... Soviet scientists hurled the satellite into space earlier Friday and sent it spinning around the earth at a speed ...

By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Since Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, satellites ... night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the world’s first satellite model with wooden components ...