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

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining ...

Sputnik Kicked The U.S. Space Agency Into Action The Soviet Union was originally working on a 3,000-pound satellite to send up, but its desire to beat the United States to space prompted it to ...

America won the ‘Space Race,’ but only after acknowledging that our schools were failing. We must do the same now.

In Washington’s policy circles, warnings about America’s declining space dominance have become a familiar refrain. Yet these concerns are not mere bureaucratic hand-wringing — they reflect a ...

The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott] puts it, was the first Soviet satellite that “didn’t suck.” The first one was essentially a stunt, and the second one had an ...

Sputnik and its successors have altered the course of physics. Cadbury, D. Space Race: The Epic Battle between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (HarperCollins, New York ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, into space orbit. The man-made craft sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its batteries ...