O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army on Jan. 31, 1958. Nevertheless, despite setbacks, Vanguard 1 did reach orbit ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later ...

To Oct. 4, 1957, to be exact. On that day Earthlings watched the skies with a mixture of wonder and trepidation after the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Americans were ...

He even coined the word “cosmonaut.” But perhaps his greatest triumph was Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, which was launched on October 4, 1957. Over the years, much of the ...

Despite that glitch, this was another technological and PR victory for the Soviet Union just three and a half years after they launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. Gagarin was the ...