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

Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957. (Image credit: NASA) World Space Week 2020 will celebrate the impact of satellites on humanity from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10.

The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite took to the skies on Oct. 4, 1957, launching the space age and the Cold War space race. Here are a few fun facts you may not know about Sputnik 1 and its ...

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik , the world's first artificial satellite , forever altering the course of history and marking the beginning of the Space Age . The dream of ...

Since the Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957, humans have put tens of thousands of objects in Earth’s orbit. Each dot represents one of 9,000 satellites orbiting the Earth.

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. As those ...

In June 1957, launch of the U.S. Vanguard 1 satellite was thought imminent. That month, two engineers proposed that, after Vanguard reached Earth orbit, "the next interesting target in space ...

This was published 2 years ago. From the Archives, 1957: First dog in space A month after Sputnik I, Russia had successfully launched a second space satellite, this time with a dog on board.