The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7 ...

U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - The United States tonight termed Russia's launching of an earth satellite "of great scientific interest" and urged ...

In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Baikonur on a test flight, followed by the launch of Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite ...

We have reason to wonder whether the launching of Sputnik I and Sputnik II is not saying something of significance to us and we are missing the message. Scientists tell us that it is the most ...

It is fifty years since the launch of Sputnik. The ensuing 'space race' had major impact — politically, of course, and technologically, but it also created a new avenue for physics research and ...

While it was, at least in part, a reaction to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in 1957, NASA went on to establish itself in the scientific community as a research and development powerhouse ...

Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina and Vladimir Putin of Russia are to launch Friday the beginning of local production at the South American country of the Sputnik V vaccine. According to ...

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 ...

Sputnik’s launch impelled an unprecedented expansion in America's support for scientific research and education in the face of a technological threat that caught us by surprise. Fifty years later, we ...

The Launch Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 rocket.It was also known as Sputnik 8K71PS, a modified ...