It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

It was 60 years ago, on November 3, 1957, that Laika—an 11-lb ... The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified ...

It is fifty years since the launch of Sputnik. The ensuing 'space race ... and gave me a post-doctoral fellowship at the Goddard Space Flight Center a year later. Looking back, I am struck ...

In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Baikonur on a test flight, followed by the launch of Sputnik I ... the first human in space.

On 4 October 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik - the first man-made object in space. As the Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth it sent back a radio signal that was picked up around the world.

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.