As we approach the 60th anniversary of the human race becoming a spacefaring species, Sputnik nostalgia will no doubt be on the rise. And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably ...

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

The launch of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, 60 years ago kicked off the space race between the Soviet Union and America. The satellite was a success not just in terms of scientific ...

Local official Galina Bordadymova is proud of Russia's scientific breakthrough When officials in Sputnik village announced recently that they would be offering Russia's Sputnik V vaccine at the ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

Both nations endeavored to perfect their satellites and launch first, and on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into ...