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 success of the Sputnik launch was not anticipated by the US, and the ensuing "Sputnik Crisis" was a period of public anxiety and fear about the perceived gap in technology between the Soviet ...

Festival goers enjoy last year's “re-enactment” of the day a piece of Sputnik IV landed in Manitowic. It came from outer space…. and crashed down in the middle of a street in Manitowoc ...

U.S. to Russians: give us more data on Sputnik WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 1957 (UP) - The United States tonight termed Russia's launching of an earth satellite "of great scientific interest" and urged ...