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 ...

President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's new budget Sunday, which includes record spending on military capabilities as Moscow ...

Sputnik V, the country's leading vaccine against Covid-19, is meant to be a world-beater just like its cosmic namesake. Back in August, it was the first to be registered for emergency use although ...

The first time the world learned the meaning of the Russian word Sputnik was in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into orbit. At the height of the Cold War this ...

The Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite, designed to gather data on Earth’s upper atmosphere and test the viability of satellite communication. It was launched as part of the ...

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 ...