On Dec. 6, 1957, the Naval Research Laboratory attempted to launch Vanguard Test Vehicle 3, an answer to Sputnik and part of ...

ON December 15 a photograph of the satellite 1957 Beta was taken at the Warner and Swasey Observatory of the Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, which shows the satellite coming out of the ...

There may actually have been three Sputnik moments. The Soviet Union's Oct. 4, 1957, launch of the first-ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, created quite a stir, to be sure. It did kick off the ...