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Such satellites were not a new idea. In October 1954, scientists called for the first ones to be launched during IGY to map Earth's surface. The White House agreed that this might be a good idea, and announced plans to launch an Earth-orbiting satellite to take measurements of the upper ...
First artificial earth satellite: Sputnik The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first manmade object to orbit the earth, on October 4, 1957, to little fanfare. In fact, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, didn’t announce the launch until the next day. Global reaction to the announce...
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (right) pointing out a spot on a globe to fellow scientists while discussing the path of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1957. ( ...
Early space ventures were limited to satellites that orbited the planet Earth.The Soviets launched the world's first satellite on October 4,1957; Sputnik I orbited Earth more than a thousand times(32)before it plunged back into the planet's atmosphere and burned up.The United States'first ...
S. launched its first satellite called Explorer 1. But the Soviets again moved ahead in the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth. He returned to the Soviet Union as a hero. One month after Mr. Gagarin, Alan Shepherd became the first American ...
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 brief but world-changing mission.
1970, when it burned up on reentry over the Pacific Ocean. It was not only America’s first satellite in orbit, but also the first of a long-running series of scientific satellites that returned a wealth of useful information about the Earth, its environment, and interactions with the Sun...
Timeline of the Space Race 1/31/58 US launches Explorer 1 Satellite Orbited 12 years Timeline of the Space Race 10/1/58 NASA created National Aeronautics Space Administration Timeline of the Space Race 1959 US Luna 1 goes outside Earth’s orbit towards the moon ...
Vanguard 1 celebrated its 50th birthday this year as both the first solar-powered satellite and the oldest artificial satellite still orbiting Earth. The satellite has traveled 196,990 revolutions of the Earth or 5.7 billion nautical miles in the past 50 years, equivalent to the distance from ...