There may actually have been three Sputnik moments. The Soviet Union's Oct. 4, 1957, launch of the first-ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, created quite a stir, to be sure. It did kick off the ...

Radio signals from the Soviet space satellite halted yesterday for a period of about six hours, but were picked up again shortly after 10 p.m. J. Allen Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical ...

ON December 15 a photograph of the satellite 1957 Beta was taken at the Warner and Swasey Observatory of the Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, which shows the satellite coming out of the ...

At some instant shortly before sunset on a not yet specified day in 1958, if all goes well with the plans of a host of American scientists engaged in an undertaking called Project Vanguard, a ...

A technician puts the finishing touches on Sputnik 1, humanity's first artificial satellite. (1957 File Photo/Agence France-Presse) Exactly 60 years ago, on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a ...

When Henry Cabot Lodge told the U.N. last Friday that America would "not forget" the Soviet satellites and would not abandon efforts to free them from their Communist yoke, he was reasserting a vital ...