I heard a radio interview yesterday with Craig Nelson, the author of Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, who was talking about the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Just over 60 years ago, on October 4, 1957, humankind reached for the stars for the first time. Sputnik. The world’s first artificial satellite was really nothing more than a radio transmitter housed ...

sphere with a big impact. Click on the image to relive the start of the space age in pictures. Now I know how post-Apollo kids feel. Just as some folks were born a little too late to remember what the ...

Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. I use the expression “periodically in awe,” as sometimes a ...

Ever since humans have looked up at the night sky, there have been wild theories about the moon and its power over us. Here are five myths that maintain a hold on many people's imaginations. Myth No.

A 23-inch Soviet spacecraft called Sputnik rocketed into orbit around the Earth 50 years ago this week, jolting a technologically complacent United States, opening the Space Age and launching a Cold ...

Fifty yearsago today, a small satellite -- the world's first built and launched by humans-- rocketed into orbit, beaming down a series of beeps that heralded the comingSpace Age to anyone listening on ...

The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful artificial satellite and marking the start of ...