How did America respond to the Soviet Union’s space dominance? The Mercury Rocket was supposed to put the U.S. ahead, but despite its early victories, it was quickly replaced. Why? Find out the ...

The late 1950s and early 60s were a time of the Cold War, Sputnik, and the Mercury and Gemini space programs. Lionel’s entry ...

During a recent visit to the Seattle's Museum of Flight, I saw a replica of the first manmade object to punch beyond the Earth's atmosphere. One visitor, who was old enough to remember the shock of ...

Despite its apparent simplicity, the impact of the R-7 rocket cannot be overstated. Sputnik was the first satellite humans launched into orbit, and it stunned the world. "In being beaten so ...

That gang just happened to include German rocket scientist Alexander Lippisch, who invented the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, a rocket powered aircraft flown during WWII. Unsurprisingly, Gurnett was ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Soviet Union’s early interest and competitiveness in the space race is something today’s space exploration enthusiasts, private companies and organizations can learn from, ...

This is a non-flying, staatic display model rocket of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 launch vehicle, made by Model Products in the late 1950s or early 1960s. There is a representation of the Sputnik 1 ...

The fierce Cold War boiled over with the Russian launch of Sputnik in 1957. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara answered with the legendary Nike-Zeus program, a six-year project to develop the ...

For more than 60 years the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has pioneered some of the nation's most important space ...

In 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the beeping of Sputnik in the radios of. On this day, six decades ago, the old Space Age began with the launch of the first orbital satellite.