North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was formed in 1949 as a response to growing fears of Soviet expansion in Eastern ...

and say that it successfully launched a satellite into orbit. Author Zak explained how the Kosmos 482 fit into the US-Soviet space race. “Both the United States and Soviet Union at that time ...

China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and United States, is to build ground ... stunning launch of the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, which sparked ...

Britain and the United States were alarmed at the growth ... On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union succeeded in launching the satellite Sputnik, the first human-made satellite to orbit Earth; and ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

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 ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago.

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing ... are similar to a meteorite impact. Netherlands satellite tracker Ralf Vandeburgh said a set of images ...