Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. I use the expression “periodically in awe,” as ...

Sputnik replica on display in the Milestones of Flight at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. ... 1957, imagination became reality when the launch of Sputnik made space travel a fact.

NASA reflects on 50th anniversary of the satellite that started the space race. Oct. 3, 2007 — -- It started with a simple beep on Oct. 4, 1957. But it was a beep heard around the world. When ...

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's Oct. 4, 1957 launch, SPACE.com presents a collection of stories on five decades of spaceflight.

1957, Reaction To Sputnik. ... Senator Glenn, then 81 years old, was interviewed at the National Air and Space Museum, in the Milestones of Flight Hall, surrounded by the Wright Brothers plane, ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite successfully placed into orbit around the Earth. ... to pursue a long-range space flight plan. On July 29, 1958, ...

Fifty years ago, science fiction became science fact. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union, having worked in complete secrecy, launched Sputnik I. Humankind's first man-made satellite, a tiny ball ...

But the space race began in earnest during the 1950s, when a group of scientists set a goal of putting a satellite into space as part of its agenda for the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year.

1957: The Space Age dawns a little sooner than expected with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. It's a pivotal moment, the kind of event that -- more than five decades later ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Soviet engineers amazed the world by placing Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was a huge embarrassment for U.S. technological leaders ...