They launched Sputnik 2 on Nov. 3, 1957, carrying a dog, named Laika, on board. (In the United States, she was nicknamed "Muttnik," according to NASA.) Since the early 1950s, both countries had ...

Why was this so disturbing ... finally launched three months later — weighed in at a puny 30 pounds. That was decidedly unimpressive given that Sputnik 2, weighing a half ton, had been shot ...

In fact, it was so short-lived that by time the United States successfully launched Explorer 1, the first American satellite in space, Sputnik 2, carrying the first animal in space, had already ...

In November 1957, the Soviet Union took the Space Race to another level when it launched Sputnik 2, a 1000-pound payload carrying a living organism, a dog named Laika, into Earth orbit. Launched from ...

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama declared, “This is our generation’s Sputnik Moment.” Sputnik was the satellite that the Soviets had launched ... ($5.2 billion ...

Nazi V-2 rockets had reached outer space on their way to hit London in the 1940s, while the U.S. was only six months away from launching its own Vanguard satellite when Sputnik was launched.

Just a few weeks after Russia put the world’s first satellite into orbit The Engineer marvelled at the launch of Sputnik 2: a much larger satellite. Sputnik 2 was also the first space craft to carry a ...

In 1957, most Americans did not know what a satellite was, but they could certainly interpret the meaning of the Soviet Union having launched Sputnik ... Union sent up Sputnik 2, a satellite ...

At about 6 p.m., word came that a Soviet R-7 rocket had pushed a satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. According to journalist Paul Dickson, the author of Sputnik: The Shock of the Century ...

Before America could get their first into orbit, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, a heavier satellite that contained the first animal that would see space, a three year old dog named Laika.

Launched on August 19 1960, Korabl-Sputnik 2, also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first ...