The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of NASA. In July 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly called the "Space Act"), which created NASA as of ...

Sputnik I Launch: How Russia Kicked off the Space Race with Earth's First Satellite 60 Years Ago. Published Oct 04, 2017 at 7:09 AM EDT. Picture dated 06 October 1957 shows the frontpage of the ...

The Sputnik launch precipitated American focus and innovations in science and technology and triggered the Space Race. Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5. The Impact of Sputnik.

With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago, the world shrank and humanity’s view of Earth and the cosmos expanded. Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched by the ...

The USSR beat America to space, too, accomplishing the first space walk, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, on March 18, 1965. The launch of Sputnik 1 was followed by the launch of two additional ...

ASTRA, The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America and CSIS, The Center for Strategic and International Studies, hosted a panel discussion on the current state of U.S. Competitiveness, ...

She has helped to celebrate the launch of Sputnik and EXPLORER I since she was in elementary school, where she learned to sing such songs as “Beep! Beep! (Here Comes A Satellite) ...

One such historic moment was in 1957, when the faculty, staff and students quickly set up camp to track Sputnik I’s orbit as it passed over Urbana. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched ...

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