In the uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully ...

The Soviet Union gave conflicting causes of death for years, from her suffocating to battery failure of equipment. But in October 2002, one of the scientists behind the Sputnik 2 mission confirmed the ...

He even coined the word “cosmonaut.” But perhaps his greatest triumph was Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, which was launched on October 4, 1957.

Eloise Page rose through the male-dominated CIA to become its first woman to head a major overseas station and anticipated the Sputnik launch that shocked America.

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Future historians, with a better perspective, may well mark Oct. 4, 1957, as one of those times,” observed The Sun in a 1977 20th anniversary Sputnik 1 article.

Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite ever launched into space, rocketed into orbit in 1957, catching the entire world by surprise and creating a geopolitical shockwave that we have never ...

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched ‘Sputnik 2’ and made history — for carrying the first-ever living creature to orbit the Earth, a dog named Laika. The flight, which was meant to test the ...

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