The phrase "Sputnik moment" has been tossed around during recent debates and press conferences regarding the technology gap between the United States and other nations, but what does the evocative ...

A model of Sputnik, the little orb that could. Image: NASA View Slideshow The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the ...

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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 ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, which occurred sixty-five years ago, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sputnik marks the feature debut of commercial director and visual stylist Egor Abramenko. But even with The Passenger, a proof-of-concept short produced in anticipation of Sputnik, plus hours of time ...