There have been many milestones of note in the story of the Space Age, but the launch of the USSR's Sputnik 1 satellite is the major breakthrough that started it all. It was the first human-made ...

On Oct. 4th, 1957, at 10:29 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1 into space on a repurposed R-7 ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com]( ...

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 ...

Sputnik V, the Covid-19 developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute, was the early rising star of Covid-19 vaccines. Now it is mired in controversy arising from the institute’s failure ...

When Sputnik became the first manmade satellite to enter space on Oct. 4, 1957, its alien beeping shocked America. Its signal stopped after just three weeks, and three months later sky gazers could no ...

That was how NBC radio introduced the signal from the first satellite in space, on October 4, 1957. But it wasn’t a triumph of American science: The sound came from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik, a piece ...

Sputnik marks the feature debut of commercial director and visual stylist Egor Abramenko. But even with The Passenger, a proof-of-concept short produced in anticipation of Sputnik, plus hours of time ...