Nancy Ramsey is a contributor to CBSNews.com. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite. Five hundred miles above the Earth, it traveled at a speed ...
Although Sputnik-1 will always be remembered as a shock to Americans, it is surprising how thinly veiled the development of the first satellite in orbit really was. On April 15, 1955, the Vechernya ...
During a recent visit to the Seattle's Museum of Flight, I saw a replica of the first manmade object to punch beyond the Earth's atmosphere. One visitor, who was old enough to remember the shock of ...
The year was 1957, the date was Oct. 4 and Americans everywhere were looking up. Something new was in the stars, something never before seen. What they were seeing was Sputnik, a 22-inch, 184-pound, ...
The slick Cold War alien invasion thriller from first-time director Egor Abramenko isn't groundbreaking, but taps into real-world fears. “Alien” casts a big shadow on “Sputnik,” a slick Cold War alien ...
On the 4th October 1957, Sputnik 1 or “Cпутник-1” was launched into orbit. It heralded the ability of humankind to launch objects into orbit as well as providing the first insight to the conditions ...
WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an ...
A scientist who developed Russia's Sputnik coronavirus vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic has been appointed head of Moscow's Gamaleya research centre, the centre said in a statement on Monday.