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 ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

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 ...

When the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, it marked a leap forward in space technology, triggering a “space race” with the American space program. Source: Alexandra_Koch/Pixabay ...

Frank Cottrell Boyce's book Sputnik's Guide To Life on Earth asks a big question - can a dog from outer space save the world? Frank visited Authors Live to read from the book and talk about writing.