Several replicas of the Sputnik 1 satellite have been showcased at museums in Russia, and another is on display at the ...

Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit ... that repeats every 2 hours Blue Skies Space to build satellite fleet around the moon to map the ancient universe What they launched had only a set ...

The Vanguard 1 satellite is still up there and is the oldest human-made object in space. It's our first piece of space archaeology. Other early satellites – such as Sputnik 1, the first ...

In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands.