In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it? For over a hundred ...

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Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

With Voyager 2 in the background, John Casani holds a small U.S. flag that was sewn into the spacecraft's thermal blankets ...

On October 4, 1957, the world was taken by surprise when the Soviet Union announced that it had launched a satellite called Sputnik, Russian for “traveling companion,” into orbit.Although it ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The launch forecast looked good as SpaceX sent up an Australian communications company’s satellite on Sunday evening. The two-hour launch window for the TD7 Optus ...