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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War ... On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik. Americans feared the implications of the first man-made satellite orbiting above the Earth.

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

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

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.

Did you guys know the Space Race was one of the craziest rivalries ... It all kicked off in 1957 when the Soviets launched *Sputnik*, the first-ever satellite, and everyone was like, "Wait ...