Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Sputnik 1 was the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

In 1957, a little beeping ball stunned the world. Sputnik I, launched 50 years ago on Oct. 4, set the stage for many more satellites to follow and... Sputnik I, the First Satellite to Orbit Earth, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - In the final months of 1957, United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson told the American public that space travel was “just over the horizon.” “Space ships are only a few years ...

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 ...