Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...

There was a long list of spy satellites that soared through space during the Cold War, but Sputnik-1 was not one of them. Sputnik kicked the U.S. space agency into action.

Sputnik’s launch wounded America’s “national ego” and was likened to a “bloodless Pearl ... Cold War intensifies as Russia launches Sputnik. By A. D. Rothman. October 3, 2022 — 12 ...

The Cold War was a period of high tension, primarily between the U.S. and Soviet Union. ... After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the U.S. had to play catchup. In 1958, ...

Learn about and revise the Cold War between 1948 and 1960 with this BBC Bitesize GCSE History (AQA) ... In order to launch the satellite Sputnik I, the USSR had developed a rocket.

At first glance, the parallels to the Cold War’s Space Race are striking. Sputnik shattered the illusion of U.S. technological supremacy and galvanized a national effort to invest in education ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik. The then Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies called it a “spectacular act of technology and propaganda”.