Russia said today that its scientists are planning to use anthropod apes as the next passengers for space vehicles. The statement came as a result of the successful launching of Sputnik II.

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

""The National Defense Education Act broke a logjam of opposition to federal aid to elementary and secondary education in 1958. Many believe that the launch of the Soviet's Sputnik satellite enabled ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations ...

When the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, it marked a leap forward in space technology, triggering a “space race” with the American space program. Source: Alexandra_Koch/Pixabay In ...

(WHTM) It all started with Sputnik. When Russia launched the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, scientists tracking its orbit noticed something interesting. As Sputnik orbited the Earth the frequency of ...