By the 1950s, scientists all over the world realized that it was becoming practical to launch an object into a circular path around the Earth ... the smaller Sputnik 1 was launched first.

On that date, the Soviet Union used a rocket originally intended for use with ballistic missiles to launch Sputnik 1 ... ham-radio operators, around the world. That’s it. On the surface ...

The anniversary is being marked by the 13th annual World Space Week ... "In the 55 years since Sputnik first beeped its way around the planet, the small silver sphere with its whip-like antennas ...

In Terre Haute, Indiana; Whittaker, California; and Columbus, Ohio, these stargazers tracked a faintly shining object as it sped around ... that Sputnik I was such a shock to the world—very ...

The Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite ... A fuel regulator in the booster also failed around 16 seconds into launch. Eventually, at 19.9 seconds after the engine cut-off ...

Yet for all its simplicity, small size, and inability to do more than orbit the Earth and transmit meaningless radio blips, the impact of Sputnik on the United States and the world was enormous ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Race, pop culture, politics — Sputnik drop-kicked them to the canvas by palling around with “coloreds” and insisting on the desegregation of ...

And that goes for engineers that Emerson hires anywhere around the globe, be it the United States ... on math and science for the baby boom generation—the Russian launch of Sputnik, the first ...