O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

an act of ideological sublimation comparable to that of Nikita Khrushchev bragging that the Soviet Union’s Sputnik-1 satellite was both first and larger than the United States’s Explorer 1.

Since Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957 ... from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the world’s first satellite model with wooden components, marking a potential shift in space ...