Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957. (Image credit: NASA) World Space Week 2020 will celebrate the impact of satellites on humanity from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10.

The Soviets called it sputnik, meaning simply “satellite” or “fellow traveler.” But to American space-watchers of 60 years ago, the satellite that launched on Oct. 4, 1957 had many ...

The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite took to the skies on Oct. 4, 1957, launching the space age and the Cold War space race. Here are a few fun facts you may not know about Sputnik 1 and its ...

Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...

On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union sent up Sputnik 2, a satellite that carried a dog named Laika. American children were told that poor Laika had enough food for a few days, and would be served a ...

The Space Age officially began when the USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. But how did this satellite work, and what did it actually do?

Future historians, with a better perspective, may well mark Oct. 4, 1957, as one of those times,” observed The Sun in a 1977 20th anniversary Sputnik 1 article.