Sputnik, circling the globe, seemed a constant, twinkling reminder that Americans were falling behind in science, destined to lose the space race. In Depression-era Alabama, a young man named Carl ...
On a fall Friday afternoon in 1957, five bells rang ominously on noisy teletype machines in newsrooms across Washington, D.C., as a news wire brought word of Sputnik's launch. LONDON, OCT. 4 ...
Launching of the Russian satellite is man’s first successful attempt to navigate the ocean of space around the earth. Despite the chagrin of U.S. rocketmen, few disparaged the Russian achievement. In ...
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