1 of 9 — In the Sputnik program, teams of nurses travel around Tomsk, Russia, treating the homeless and drug addicts for tuberculosis. Here, nurse Yulia Safronova waits for a TB patient outside ...

Sputnik – sometimes called Sputnik 1 – went ... Sciences and several Soviet ministers formally approved the satellite program in 1954, laying the groundwork for more focused development ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! A panelist of Space Specialist (Sputnik Program and U.S. Foreign Policy) speak about the launch of Sputnik and the effects of it on the world ...

The shock and panic, misplaced as it was, did light a fire under the American space program. Without Sputnik there would have been no Apollo program, no race to the moon, no 1969 landing.

MOSCOW (AP) — Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia’s space program — a stunning tribute ...

The Explorer program continued as a successful ongoing series of lightweight, scientifically useful spacecraft. The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of NASA. In July 1958 ...

On this day in 1957, the Soviets successfully sent Sputnik into orbit around Earth ... style give us a taste of what the Soviet space program looked like from behind the iron curtain.

and its Vanguard program called for orbital liftoff in November 1957. At about 6 p.m., word came that a Soviet R-7 rocket had pushed a satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. According to journalist Paul ...

and said it intends to withdraw from the International Space Station program after 2024. Moscow is now well behind China in its total number of operating on-orbit satellites. Just as Sputnik ...