WHAT: The recent $847,500 sale of a full-scale model of Russia’s Sputnik-1 satellite in a Bonhams New York auction shows how scattered space-race artifacts have become. The Air and space sale included ...

The Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 ignited a revival of science education in America. At the time, Americans assumed they were far ahead in a new frontier of science. They ...

China is both communist and working passably well, something he and the United States generally are being forced reluctantly ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

A surprise advance in technology. In 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first space satellite and caught the world off guard, especially the United States. Sputnik caused the U.S. to move quickly ...

China has a clear vision for space and is executing it. Can the U.S. find a viable playbook to remain relevant in space ...

October 2, 1957 - In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1. This was the height of the Cold War and Space Race, prompting the U.S. to build Intercontinental ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

MOSCOW When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension. People watched what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score ...

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