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1957: Sputnik satellite blasts into space. A Russian satellite has been launched into space - the first man-made object ever to leave the Earth's atmosphere. The Russian news agency, Tass, said the satellite Sputnik was now 560 miles (900 kilometres) above the Earth and circling it every hour-and-a-half. Scientists predict the metal sphere will ...
Online Documents. Sputnik and the Space Race. If an American happened to be gazing at the stars on Friday, October 4, 1957 he may have noticed an object crossing the evening sky. Radio listeners, too, may have heard a series of "beep, beep, beep" sounds coming from their radios. A momentous event had occurred in the region of the Soviet Union ...
Sputnik was 10 times the size of the first planned U.S. satellite, Explorer, which launched on Jan. 31, 1958. Sputnik kicked off the “space race,” and stimulated the U.S. space industry's ...
Oct 3, 2017 · October 3, 2017 9:00 AM EDT. T he Soviets called it sputnik, meaning simply “satellite” or “fellow traveler.”. But to American space-watchers of 60 years ago, the satellite that launched ...
Vanguard. Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age by Roger D. Launius. Korolev's Triple Play: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3 by James Harford. Korolev, Sputnik, and The International Geophysical Year by Asif A. Siddiqi. For further information, please email histinfo@hq.nasa.gov. Updated February 2, 2005.
The other phrase that soon replaced earlier definitions of time was "Space Age." With the launch of Sputnik 1, the Space Age had been born and the world would be different ever after. Sputnik 1, launched on 4 October 1957 from the Soviet Union's rocket testing facility in the desert near Tyuratam in the Kazakh Republic, proved a decidedly ...
Oct 3, 2017 · Sputnik – 60 years of the space age. Sixty years ago, the first ‘beep-beep’ signal from Sputnik was heard from the heavens on the night of 4 October 1957, marking the beginning of a new era for humankind. The goal of launching an artificial satellite to orbit Earth had been one for the international scientific community for some time, and ...
