On the 4th October 1957, Sputnik 1 or “Cпутник-1” was launched into orbit. It heralded the ability of humankind to launch objects into orbit as well as providing the first insight to the conditions ...

The object that started the Space Race was small and deceptively simple. Sputnik 1 was a metal sphere about two feet wide, and it carried only a radio transmitter and four antennas - no sensors and no ...

There may actually have been three Sputnik moments. The Soviet Union's Oct. 4, 1957, launch of the first-ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, created quite a stir, to be sure. It did kick off the ...

The Sputnik 8K71PS rocket streaks across the sky over Montreal on its way to deliver Sputnik 1 into orbit. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology track Sputnik 1 from a mobile van.

Scientists working at the field lab of the National Bureau of Standards taking measurements of Sputnik I signals.Carl Iwasaki—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images When Sputnik 1 launched 60 years ...

October 4, 2007 Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite. Even half a century on, the impact of the October 4th 1957 launch that saw the Soviet Union’s satellite became ...

Fifty-five years ago today, the Space Race was kicked into gear by a silver basketball flying through the sky. Sputnik 1, the Soviet probe that became the first manmade object to reach space, launched ...

The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful artificial satellite and marking the start of ...

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On this day in 1958 Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to be put into orbit, fell to Earth after completing 1,440 orbits. The launch of Sputnik was seen as a major blow to the American quest ...

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906-1966) was a Russian spacecraft designer who designed the rocket used to launch Sputnik. [Sergei Korolev: Architect of Soviet Space Program] A crowd gazes upon one of ...