Laika was not intended to return alive, and she died shortly after the launch due to overheating and stress. Her body ...

Sputnik's broadcast lasted a total of 0.3 seconds, followed by a pause just as short and then a repeated chirping sound. According to NASA, this was a test of the third objective: to help ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental ... and my graduate career was funded with state and foundation dollars. NASA paid for my PhD dissertation at Cornell University in 1966 and gave ...

In Washington’s policy circles, warnings about America’s declining space dominance have become a familiar refrain. Yet these concerns are not mere bureaucratic hand-wringing — they reflect a ...

In July, Eisenhower announced the formation of NASA, a federal agency that would ... exactly two years after Sputnik, Luna 3 performed a flyby and photographed most of the moon's far side.

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

The recent release of a new AI model triggered a tech stock tumble. Did this “Sputnik moment” set off an AI tech race, and are we ready for the AI-human relationships of tomorrow?

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble Space Telescope's universe r ...

NASA Archive / Alamy It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite.

As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he ... for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is so difficult that no one should count on being able ...