Sputnik's spawn: How the Cold War created astrobiology The story of Joshua Lederbeg, who with a young Carl Sagan helped pioneer the search for extraterrestrial life. By Caleb Scharf.

The Cold War propaganda campaign, fueled by planning for an ICBM-launched nuclear war, led the Soviet Union to launch Sputnik. The U.S. response, ...

"Sputnik Mania" movie review: Through archival footage, expert testimony and thankfully limited use of re-enactments, documentary filmmaker David Hoffman provides a lively look back at Russia's ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...

There was a long list of spy satellites that soared through space during the Cold War, but Sputnik-1 was not one of them. Sputnik kicked the U.S. space agency into action.

Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, compared the test to that pivotal event during the Cold War: “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment,” he said, “but I think ...

Sputnik made a complete orbit of the Earth every 96.2 minutes. In its three-month life, it orbited the planet 1,440 times. ... Hepped up by the intensities of the Cold War, ...

In 1957, the sense of security the United States had come to accept after America’s victory in World War II drastically changed. The NBC radio broadcast on the night of Oct. 4 told its audience ...