In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1, causing shock and alarm across the West. It had been generally assumed that the US was far more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The country was reeling from the Sputnik crisis, having been beaten by the Soviet Union in the race to launch the world’s first artificial satellite the previous year. The sense of fear and ...