Fifty years ago Thursday — Oct. 4, 1957 — the Space Age began with an American defeat. The result was a tremendous push for science in American life and culture the likes of which have not been seen ...

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Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, which occurred sixty-five years ago, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, science fiction became science fact. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union, having worked in complete secrecy, launched Sputnik I. Humankind's first man-made satellite, a tiny ball that ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - In the final months of 1957, United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson told the American public that space travel was “just over the horizon.” “Space ships are only a few years ...

1957: The Space Age dawns a little sooner than expected with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. It's a pivotal moment, the kind of event that -- more than five decades later -- ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Exactly 58 years ago, the former Soviet Union shocked the world by launching the first artificial ...

News bulletin in 1957: Sputnik stuns the world. CIA in 2017: Not really. The CIA released newly declassified documents on Wednesday revealing that while the American public was surprised when the ...

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 Langley Air ...

A Soviet engineer displays a replica of Sputnik at a 1957 Moscow exhibition. * Photo: Bettmann / CORBIS * 1957: The Space Age dawns a little sooner than expected with the successful launch of Sputnik ...

I love the industrial animation used in this newsreel introducing Americans to Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviets on October 4, 1957. Despite fears of red space supremacy ...