While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Cher Ami is credited with saving the lives of 194 members of Whittlesey’s “Lost Battalion.” He became known as a war hero in ...

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Subsequent flights followed with Albert II, III, and IV, with Albert II becoming the ... She was launched aboard the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 in 1957. Unfortunately, Laika did not survive the mission, ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world by launching the Sputnik-1 satellite into orbit ... computer electronics market—with the Apple II computer, for instance—without needing the kinds ...

As the first animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2, Laika’s mission provided data critical to space ... Smoky, a Yorkshire Terrier found in a foxhole in New Guinea during World War II, endeared ...

As the first animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2, Laika’s mission provided data critical to space ... Smoky, a Yorkshire Terrier found in a foxhole in New Guinea during World War II, endeared ...

An unexploded bomb dating back to the Second World War was discovered near tracks serving the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris on Friday. France's national train operator SNCF said in a ...

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When the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, it marked a leap forward in space technology, triggering a “space race” with the American space program. Source: Alexandra_Koch/Pixabay ...