The worlds first artificial satellite, the Soviet Unions Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it ...

In Washington’s policy circles, warnings about America’s declining space dominance have become a familiar refrain. Yet these concerns are not mere bureaucratic hand-wringing — they reflect a ...

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America won the ‘Space Race,’ but only after acknowledging that our schools were failing. We must do the same now.

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 ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

These observations will be refined with the launch, in July 2008, of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. The launch of Sputnik five decades ago has had profound effects. It has changed ...

In the early- to mid-1960s, after the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite made the United States afraid it was falling behind in science and technology, R&D represented 10 percent or more of ...