"The big story of the day was the Little Rock crisis — are you going ... But the mood shifted noticeably on Nov. 3, 1957, when the USSR successfully launched Sputnik 2 to orbit, Launius said.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first Earth-orbiting satellite, Sputnik. It was a clear ... pursuit has now become a full-fledged crisis. Johnson, well known for his war on ...

At the time of the Sputnik "crisis," the White House ... since Pearl Harbor set off such repercussions in public life." By 1957, a new world was at hand for the United States.

The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful ... President Eisenhower coined the term ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik ... and it set off a wave of fear and anxiety across the U.S. now known as the "Sputnik crisis." Sputnik was a metal sphere roughly 2 feet ...

Back in 1957, the Soviet Union accomplished the ... Yet that is what happened. The “Sputnik Crisis” was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the perceived technological ...

Life size model of the first artificial satellite launched into space on 4 October 1957. It is made of stainless ... precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a ...