Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. I use the expression “periodically in awe,” as ...

The space race was on. According to an Associated Press article in 1957, a top level scientific report that predated the launch of Sputnik 1 by two days, proposed a federal space flight program to ...

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As ...

The Samoyed-terrier mix was said to have been aboard the 1957 Soviet Spacecraft, Sputnik 2. Madison Dapcevich Published Dec. 2, 2024. Image ... the first steps in preparation for human space flight.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, into low Earth orbit. Sputnik's launch caused fear of the ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite successfully placed into orbit around the Earth. ... to pursue a long-range space flight plan. On July 29, 1958, ...