On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the sky ...

Suddenly, an insular sense and security of place was shattered when the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, a 184-pound, 23-inch diameter aluminum ball, which was the first man-made satellite ever to ...

Sputnik was a satellite that the Soviet Union announced it had launched on October 4, 1957, at the height of the Cold War between the two superpowers of the time. It was a world first. The news ...

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 ...

Actually, Sputnik wasn’t first artificial satellite. During WW2 Germans (including Von Braun – creator of NASA) sent some V2 as atmosphere research instead of bombs.

In 1957, the post-World War II baby boom peaked. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely ...

Then Sputnik, a scientific satellite, overflew the United States and other nations of the world. On 8 October, 1957, an Eisenhower advisor, Donald Quarles, offered this irony to the US president: "The ...

This was published 2 years ago. From the Archives, 1957: First dog in space A month after Sputnik I, Russia had successfully launched a second space satellite, this time with a dog on board.

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down a balloon, termed a “weather balloon” by Chinese officials. Off the South Carolina coast, two F-22 fighter jets from ...