CU was recently granted a $2.5 million gift from long-time donors Dale and Patricia Hatfield. The funding will be used to ...

On September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft managed to circle the Moon. The achievement beat NASA’s iconic ...

The model was the first convertible to offer air conditioning, an option that cost around one-third of the MSRP of a 1957 ...

Did you guys know the Space Race was one of the craziest rivalries in history? 🚀💥 It was this epic competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, both trying to outdo ...

Page 164 of the 2007 book, " Animals in Space," co-published by Colin Burgess and Chriss Dubbs, described a 1999 interview with Russian researchers, noting that Laika died after Sputnik 2 overheated: ...

The stakes were higher than space travel, as the Cold War began in earlier in 1957 and the launch of Sputnik intensified the arms race, with Nazi Germany close to developing the world’s first ...

The Space Race between the United States and the Soviets officially begins. Nov. 3, 1957: The Soviets send the first living creature — Laika the dog — into orbit aboard Sputnik 2.

Future historians, with a better perspective, may well mark Oct. 4, 1957, as one of those times,” observed The Sun in a 1977 20th anniversary Sputnik 1 article.