Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into space. She rode aboard the Sputnik 2 […] ...

The USSR had launched Sputnik in October ... It was time to use their ace in the hole: the Redstone rocket, a direct descendant of the V-2s designed during WWII. The only problem was the propellant.

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 ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Western media covered the ...

The Soviet leader was right about the importance of Sputnik, technologically as well as militarily: the R-7 rocket that put the payload in orbit was principally used as an intercontinental ...

The first space vehicle was launched on October 4, 1957, from Scientific Research Test Range No.5 (later named the Baikonur Cosmodrome) of the USSR Defense Ministry by the Sputnik rocket that was ...

At the recent “Future of the Blue Economy” conference in Newport, R.I., entrepreneurs and their investors were talking about breakthroughs. Still, the term they used ...

The Soviet rocket that launched Sputnik into space produced a thrust that was a few times stronger than that of an American-made rocket, a claim that was doubted by many US officials at that time.

A delegation from Myanmar, led by Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing, has arrived in Russia's southern region of Samara on an ...