The Sputnik 8K71PS rocket streaks across the sky over Montreal on its way to deliver Sputnik 1 into orbit. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology track Sputnik 1 from a mobile van.
On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray husky-spitz mix from the streets of Moscow, and she was recruited by the Soviet ...
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks at the 2025 Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink likened ...
Sputnik 1 was a simple satellite that launched the Space Age and triggered a global technological and political revolution.