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 intercontinental ...

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

Footage from a 1957 newsreel covering the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite. Footage from a 1957 newsreel covering the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite.

Engineer Yevgeniy Shabarov recalled the dog's final moments on Earth, saying: "After placing Laika in the container and ...

Find out more about Laika, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova and the moon landing: history of the space race, don't miss it.

On 4 October 1957, I was a freckled ... the latest sensation, Elvis Presley. Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch ...

1957. In October, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik I. It was followed in November by the spacecraft Sputnik 2, which carried Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth. In ...

November 3 marks 67 years since the Soviet Union sent Laika the dog to orbit the Earth on its Sputnik 2 mission. We recall ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 4, 1957 (UP) - Russia said today that its scientists ... The statement came as a result of the successful launching of Sputnik II. Pravda, official Communist Party newspaper, said ...