Back during the height of the First Cold War, international shortwave station Radio Moscow broadcast news, views, and programming to the West; all reflecting the views of the Soviet government that ...

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.

On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the sky, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Each year, the first week of October kicks off the United Nation's World Space Week, which ...

In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring civilization — and it was us. Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, launched on Oct. 4 of that year ...

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 ...

Although Sputnik-1 will always be remembered as a shock to Americans, it is surprising how thinly veiled the development of the first satellite in orbit really was. On April 15, 1955, the Vechernya ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. The object that started the Space Race was small and deceptively simple. Sputnik 1 ...

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, ...