Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union ... she would not survive the flight.” Laika’s voyage aboard Sputnik 2 was objectively a monumental achievement in space exploration.

It was 60 years ago, on November 3, 1957, that Laika—an 11-lb ... The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified ...

What happened between the time Sputnik launched in 1957 and 1961? “A lot of the [space] activity ... then go up to Warminster for a battery of tests simulating space flight. Michael Maguire, president ...

On 4 October 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik - the first man-made object in space. As the Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth it sent back a radio signal that was picked up around the world.

Though the first-ever space flight occurred in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into space, rocket engine technology was already being tinkered with in previous decades. Examples like ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned ...