The Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite ... A fuel regulator in the booster also failed around 16 seconds into launch. Eventually, at 19.9 seconds after the engine cut-off ...

The anniversary is being marked by the 13th annual World Space Week ... "In the 55 years since Sputnik first beeped its way around the planet, the small silver sphere with its whip-like antennas ...

Each year, the first week of October kicks off the United Nation's World Space Week ... The satellite zipped around Earth every 96 minutes. Sputnik 1 was powered by three silver-zinc batteries ...

His team succeeded in building a spacecraft in less than a month, and on Nov. 3 launched Sputnik 2, which weighed about 508 kilograms (1,120 pounds). It carried the world’s first passenger ...

A weeklong international celebration of spaceflight and exploration kicks off today (Oct. 4), with hundreds of events planned in dozens of countries around ... Sputnik: How the World's 1st ...

When Sputnik 1 launched 60 years ago ... not the other way around. Meanwhile, in the political world, President Eisenhower attempted to reassure Americans by promising that a U.S. satellite ...

And that goes for engineers that Emerson hires anywhere around the globe, be it the United States ... on math and science for the baby boom generation—the Russian launch of Sputnik, the first ...