In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it? For over a hundred ...

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With Voyager 2 in the background, John Casani holds a small U.S. flag that was sewn into the spacecraft's thermal blankets ...

On October 4, 1957, the world was taken by surprise when the Soviet Union announced that it had launched a satellite called Sputnik, Russian for “traveling companion,” into orbit.Although it ...

These experimental fighter jets may have been bold and cutting-edge, but they never made it into active service or combat.

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

The Soviet Union lost the Cold War, and communism as global revolutionary forces died shortly thereafter. But the USSR didn’t lose because of the MiG-21. If anything, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde ...