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The object that started the Space Race was small and deceptively simple. Sputnik 1 was a metal sphere about two feet wide, and it carried only a radio transmitter and four antennas - no sensors and no ...

There may actually have been three Sputnik moments. The Soviet Union's Oct. 4, 1957, launch of the first-ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, created quite a stir, to be sure. It did kick off the ...

Sputnik 1 was a simple satellite that launched the Space Age and triggered a global technological and political revolution.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race.Sputnik 1 was the first human-made ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Exactly 58 years ago, the former Soviet Union shocked the world by launching the first artificial ...

Fifty-five years ago today, the Space Race was kicked into gear by a silver basketball flying through the sky. Sputnik 1, the Soviet probe that became the first manmade object to reach space, launched ...

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 (Figure 3.1), was launched on 4 October 1957 at 6.00 am Moscow time and the event was announced by Radio Moscow that evening. Sputnik was the Russian ...

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One of the few surviving Soviet Sputniks created during Russia’s Cold War space race with the United States sold at auction at Bonhams for $847,500 on Wednesday, September 27. The piece sold was a ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a non-flying, staatic display model rocket of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 launch vehicle, made by Model Products in the late 1950s or early 1960s. There is a ...