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

Information on the density of the upper atmosphere obtained from observations of the Russian satellites will lead the United States to launch its own satellite ... study of Sputnik by Smithsonian ...

Within a year, Congress voted to create NASA. Fears about Sputnik evaporated as three months later the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer 1, and eventually took the lead in the race for space.

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - Facts and figures of the Soviet satellite:SIZE: 22 inches in diameter. U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON ...

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 ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 ...

Some, like investor Marc Andreessen, have likened China’s announcement to the Soviet announcement of the launch of the ...

Nikita Khruschev successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite. Sixty-seven years ... to acknowledge inconvenient historical facts or conundrums ranging from the Tiananmen ...