"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a security guarantee agreement with Belarus to the State Duma for ratification ...
Is this a Sputnik moment? The world has reacted with astonishment to the release of a disruptive AI model from Chinese ...
Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...
Why being first to return to the moon matters.
5 — other US policy-makers instantly recognized Sputnik's military implications: a significant step had been taken towards an ICBM that could deposit a nuclear weapon anywhere in the West in ...
MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Bernama-Sputnik/RIA Novosti) -- US President Donald Trump said he was willing to make a deal with Iran instead ...
As we approach the 60th anniversary of the human race becoming a spacefaring species, Sputnik nostalgia will no doubt be on the rise. And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably ...