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 ...

The beginning of the space age was ushered in with the successful launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first orbiting satellite, on Oct. 4, 1957.

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

Sputnik was a satellite that the Soviet Union announced it had launched on October 4, 1957, at the height of the Cold War between the two superpowers of the time. It was a world first.

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 ...

In 1957, the post-World War II baby boom peaked. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely ...

The Space Age officially began when the USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. But how did this satellite work, and what did it actually do?

This was published 2 years ago From the Archives, 1957: First dog in space A month after Sputnik I, Russia had successfully launched a second space satellite, this time with a dog on board. The ...

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 ...