Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

As rocket technology improved and spaceflight ... the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines ...

British scientists have conceded that their prediction that the rocket of Sputnik I would plunge to earth Saturday was incorrect. This admission confirmed the judgment of J. Allen Hynek ...

Sputnik 1 was the object that began the era of space exploration when it was launched from the USSR in 1957. Many people will remember the wonder of hearing the regular 'beeps' of the radio signal ...

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 (Figure 3.1), was launched on 4 October 1957 at ... Colonel Gregory Tokayev, a Russian rocket expert who had sought refuge in England, expressed the ...

Since Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, satellites have been made with metals. A group of Japanese scientists thinks it has a viable alternative: wood. A SpaceX rocket launched Monday night from the ...