On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the sky ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957.In that moment, which occurred sixty-five years ago, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...

On This Day: The Launch of Sputnik. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, into low Earth orbit.

When the Soviet Union launched the first-ever satellite not everyone was happy. In 1955, the United States announced it was working on a satellite scheduled to launch in 1957 during the ...

Earth's Space Age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched the first human-made satellite into space, much to the surprise and disappointment of the United States ...

Space czar Sergei Korolev won fame for the launch of Sputnik, ... conducted in the Soviet Union, similar to the satellite studies RAND ... 1957, Tikhonravov’s “simple satellite” took off in ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." Skip to content Home ...

This was published 2 years ago. From the Archives, 1957: Sputnik new ‘Pearl Harbour’ to many Americans Russia’s launch of the first man-made satellite signalled the dawn of the Space Age ...

On July 29, 1955, the White House announced President Dwight D. Eisenhower had approved U.S. plans for participating in the satellite-launch venture. The following day, the Soviet Union made ...