On the anniversary of Sputnik's launch, explore seven of the Soviet Union’s firsts in the history of space exploration.
The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of , the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the ...
President Dwight Eisenhower announced, through his press secretary, that the United States would launch an artificial satellite during the International Geophysical Year (IGY). A week later, on 8 August the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU approved the idea of creating an artificial ...
Attention generated by the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's launch however, provided the opportunity for Garriott to tell his father of his "secret" satellite, and for Owen to tell his son of his own connection with the original Sputnik I. "With the 50th anniversary of Sputnik approaching, John ...
Starting in May of 1957 another three-year long program to launch dogs to altitudes of 200 to 212 kilometers (124 to 132 miles) had begun this time using the much more powerful R-2A rocket. The next satellite, designated Object PS-2, would build on this experience and would compliment ...
The Soviet Union went on to launch a series of additional Sputnik satellites. Sputnik 2, for example, carried a dog into space, named Laika. Sputnik 2 weighed 1120 pounds. It was launched on November 3, 1957. The launch site was again the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located near the ci...
Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist, said in a post on X on Sunday that DeepSeek's R1 model was AI's "Sputnik moment", referencing the former Soviet Union's launch of a satellite that marked the s...
more than 90 percent of Americans knew about satellites. A survey published by Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in 1959, found that immediately after the Sputnik launch 26 percent of Americans thought that Russian science was superior to that of the US. A year later,...
A model of Sputnik, the little orb that could. Image: NASA View Slideshow The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the pursuit of science. But that’s not quite true. Technic
In the next couple of months, NASA will launch ICON and GOLD, 在接下来的几个月里,宇航局将发射ICON和GOLD, two Explorers that will study part of Earth's upper atmosphere. 这两个“探索者”将研究地球上层大气的某个部分。 And this year, they'll also launch TESS, which will search 200,000...