Why being first to return to the moon matters.

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

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 ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...

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 ...

Laika’s voyage aboard Sputnik 2 was objectively a monumental ... Most aptly, she has a statue in Moscow, depicting her standing atop a rocket. Does Laika’s story sadden you more than it ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958 ...

USSR tech race and this artificial intelligence edition between the US and China, there are key differences — with global ...

In late 1957, the US Navy's Vanguard rocket was primed to launch the world's first artificial satellite. But, on the morning of Oct. 4, the Soviet Union struck first and lobbed a small metal ball into ...