The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful artificial satellite and marking the start of ...

In 1957, the world's first manmade object entered into orbit around the Earth. It was called Sputnik and it was launched by the Soviet Union. Sixty-three years later, Russia launched another Sputnik: ...

Fifty years ago Thursday, the Soviet Union started the Space Age by sending the first man-made satellite into orbit around the earth. Sputnik changed history when it went into space on Oct. 4, 1957, ...

OCEAN TOWNSHIP - Sitting in his office on Friday, 61 years to the day of his brush with history, Stanley Schodowski was eager to talk about Sputnik. On Oct. 12, 1957, the Ocean Township resident and ...