The Cold War propaganda campaign, fueled by planning for an ICBM-launched nuclear war, led the Soviet Union to launch Sputnik. The U.S. response, ...

Sputnik's spawn: How the Cold War created astrobiology The story of Joshua Lederbeg, who with a young Carl Sagan helped pioneer the search for extraterrestrial life. By Caleb Scharf.

"Sputnik Mania" movie review: Through archival footage, expert testimony and thankfully limited use of re-enactments, documentary filmmaker David Hoffman provides a lively look back at Russia's ...

There was a long list of spy satellites that soared through space during the Cold War, but Sputnik-1 was not one of them. Sputnik kicked the U.S. space agency into action.

Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, compared the test to that pivotal event during the Cold War: “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment,” he said, “but I think ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...

Sputnik made a complete orbit of the Earth every 96.2 minutes. In its three-month life, it orbited the planet 1,440 times. ... Hepped up by the intensities of the Cold War, ...

Sputnik’s launch wounded America’s “national ego” and was likened to a “bloodless Pearl ... Cold War intensifies as Russia launches Sputnik. By A. D. Rothman. October 3, 2022 — 12 ...