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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off from Cape Canaveral ... They had already launched Sputnik and sent Yuri Gagarin to orbit the Earth. All in all, the Russians ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1’s ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen ... just as importantly they had launched massive powerful rockets. Their maiden launch was followed less ...

U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON ... The White House said today this government is studying Russia's rocket advances "very carefully."The statement came as congressional ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 ... needing super-duper processing power. Voyager 1, launched in 1977 with three tiny computers packing ...