Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet rocket launched Earth's second artificial satellite, Sputnik 2, into orbit, carrying a living ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet rocket launched Earth's second artificial satellite, Sputnik 2, into orbit, carrying a living ...

The USSR had launched Sputnik in October ... It was time to use their ace in the hole: the Redstone rocket, a direct descendant of the V-2s designed during WWII. The only problem was the propellant.

Sputnik 1, launched from the Soviet Union’s rocket test site near Tyuratam, Kazakhistan, was a mere 184-pound “hunk of iron almost anybody could launch,” as a U.S. Navy admiral characterized ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 6--Nikita Khrushchev declared tonight part of the carrier rocket of Sputnik I fell in the United States Sunday. However, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical ...