Hence, Sputnik 1 came into existence with the help of ... in orbit for two months until December 2, 1957. Sputnik 1 itself ...

Sputnik – sometimes called Sputnik 1 – went into space on Oct. 4, 1957. The achievement sent ... beach ball-sized satellite's trip into Earth orbit. "The American public felt echoes of the ...

The Soviets called it sputnik, meaning simply “satellite ... that the USSR had the ability to get a heavy satellite into orbit, a feat the U.S. had not yet accomplished.

On October 4, 1957, Moscow declared one of its greatest ... one of the designers who produced the rocket that launched Sputnik into orbit, Nikolai Shiganov, told AFP that he and others only ...

As Sputnik I slipped into its low-Earth orbit in October 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower remained privately confident that the United States had already secretly taken all the necessary ...

An event of similar proportions that caused a case of worldwide jitters transpired in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into space ... satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

On a fall Friday afternoon in 1957, five bells rang ominously on ... while information on the launch vehicle or booster, that put Sputnik into orbit would not be known in the West for years.

a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard Sputnik 2 spacecraft on Nov. 3, 1957. This photo, and many others like it, are real.