and suggested the creation and launch of a satellite in April–May 1957, before the IGY began in July 1957. Hence, Sputnik 1 ...

New York (CNN)-- On Tuesday night, Barack Obama looked back more than half a century to October 4, 1957 ... own response to Sputnik, the Vanguard satellite, exploded on the launch pad.

On 4 October 1957, I was a freckled ... Johnson, calling the Sputnik launch “a second Pearl Harbor”, held two months of hearings that vigorously criticized the Republican government's failings ...

And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably primitive compared to today’s satellites, its 1957 launch was an inflection point in history and a huge achievement for humanity.

Nearly seven decades after the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch jolted America into the ... The original Sputnik moment in 1957 shocked the American public, spurring the creation of NASA and ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 ... a claim that was doubted by many US officials at that time. The success of the Sputnik launch was not anticipated by the US, and the ensuing ...