Sputnik orbiting Earth contributed to a growing sense of fear that the U.S. was not nearly as technologically advanced as its Russian rivals. In comparison, the U.S. tested several rockets and ...

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 ...

Festival goers enjoy last year's “re-enactment” of the day a piece of Sputnik IV landed in Manitowic. It came from outer space…. and crashed down in the middle of a street in Manitowoc ...

In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Baikonur on a test flight, followed by the launch of Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite ...