A model of Sputnik, the little orb that could. Image: NASA View Slideshow The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, which occurred sixty-five years ago, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...

The slick Cold War alien invasion thriller from first-time director Egor Abramenko isn't groundbreaking, but taps into real-world fears. “Alien” casts a big shadow on “Sputnik,” a slick Cold War alien ...

WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an ...

Although Sputnik-1 will always be remembered as a shock to Americans, it is surprising how thinly veiled the development of the first satellite in orbit really was. On April 15, 1955, the Vechernya ...

Nancy Ramsey is a contributor to CBSNews.com. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite. Five hundred miles above the Earth, it traveled at a speed ...

Forty years ago, Sputnik and the Soviets set the course for a space race with the West. Now the satellite, the space race - and even the Soviet Union itself - are gone. But Sputnik’s legacy endures.

The launch of the beach-ball-sized Russian satellite came as a shock to Americans long accustomed to being number one. "Listen now," said the NBC radio network announcer on the night of October 4, ...

Andrew Feinberg is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. “What would you do if we asked you to write something that wasn’t true?” I was sitting in a 10th-floor conference room in the K Street offices ...

Sputnik marks the feature debut of commercial director and visual stylist Egor Abramenko. But even with The Passenger, a proof-of-concept short produced in anticipation of Sputnik, plus hours of time ...

TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to the Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called “covert influence operations.” The social video app said in a ...

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