exactly two years after Sputnik, Luna 3 performed a flyby and photographed most of the moon's far side. The Soviets now appeared to be winning the lunar phase of the space race, but if they ...

It is fifty years since the launch of Sputnik. The ensuing 'space race' had major impact — politically, of course, and technologically, but it also created a new avenue for physics research and ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW ... of the sphere in its race around the earth. Ohio man the first to spot Sputnik By LARRY OCHS, as told to the United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct ...

The Sputnik 1 sparked the space race and fundamentally forever altered humanity’s relationship with space. Today in Aviation ...

A Space Race-era study from the Air Force proposed establishing a Moon base by 1969 armed with a "Lunar Based Earth ...

Serious concern was in the air in our country when the Soviets launched Sputnik, concern to such ... However, with the space ...

Project Hyperion Design Competition: envisioning interstellar generation ships for humanity's future in space and sustainable ...

Most people don’t remember the later Sputnik missions. However, they did some of the first science in Earth’s orbit. [Scott] has a lot of history related to the early days of space science.

(Sputnik would also earn Nikita Khrushchev the ... Khrushchev blames the Russians’ defeat in the Space Race as much on the long-rang planning and smart engineering of the American program ...

A couple of hours' drive from Moscow, Sputnik village has a cattle farm, a few identical apartment blocks and no indication at all why it was named after a triumph of the Soviet space race.