Sixty years ago today, the space race began with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik — the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. The launch ushered in a wave of new political, military, ...

Since the unseen fiery deaths of Sputniks I and II, the edge of space near the earth had belonged to three small U.S. satellites, playing like baby bluefish in an ocean. Last week the Russians ...

Exactly 58 years ago, the former Soviet Union shocked the world by launching the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit. Awestruck American officials listened in fear as Sputnik barreled through ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, which occurred sixty-five years ago, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...

Explorer 1, launched atop a Juno 1 rocket Jan. 31, 1958, was the first American satellite to achieve orbit. Although it was much smaller than Sputnik 2 and only a few pounds heavier than the original ...

So how did you celebrate Sputnik Day? Wait, you didn’t know about Sputnik Day? On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. It spurred a space race between ...

Oct. 4—66 years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world into the space race after sending the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. Sputnik 1 weighed around 184 pounds and was ...

When the Russians launched Sputnik on Oct. 4, 1957, I was in the third grade. I never could quite spot it in the sky, although I wasn’t about to admit that. I vividly remember the feeling that we had ...

Fifty years ago, May 15, 1958, Morning Call readers found a local story describing “a year of decision and opportunity to improve Pennsylvania’s education system.” The story was about a speech given ...

President Eisenhower and NASA administrator T. Keith Glennan examine photographs taken by TIROS-1 in April 1960, less than two years after Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act.