I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a ...

Gregory Vaisman, co-founder of Sputnik Russian Television and Cultural Association and long-term St Kilda resident, has ...

It might be another conspiracy theory, but the saga of the lost Soviet cosmonauts has persisted for many years, largely thanks to two Italian brothers.

Discover the story of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviets in 1957. This iconic spacecraft, shaped like a shiny beach ball, revolutionized history. Explore its purpose, ...

My late mother proudly possessed a curious object: a tea cosy decorated with the image of a Sputnik. In 1957, when Russia launched the world’s first satellite, this item would have been a charmingly… ...

Charles Deehr, an emeritus professor at UAF’s Geophysical Institute, created this image of Dexter Stegemeyer, perhaps the first man in North America to see the Sputnik 1 satellite in October 1957.

But instead, we scoffed at the Russian achievement, and we boasted that we were more powerful, Sputnik to the contrary.

In fall 1957, Americans looked up at the stars and were able to see with the naked eye a real-time reminder that the Soviet Union was taking the lead in space. Nikita Khruschev successfully ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite successfully placed into orbit around the Earth. According the the US State Department, “the successful launch came as ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - The United States tonight termed Russia's launching of an earth satellite "of great scientific interest" and urged the Soviets to share details of their momentous ...

Image: Bettman/Corbis Sputnik Left Legacy for U.S. Science Education When Sputnik's "beep" first reached Earth on Oct. 4, 1957, many Americans dreaded that the Russian satellite was spying on them.