sphere with a big impact. Click on the image to relive the start of the space age in pictures. Now I know how post-Apollo kids feel. Just as some folks were born a little too late to remember what the ...

When a renowned indie documentarian went to make a film on Sputnik, he spent years collecting original footage from people he met through eBay and YouTube. But the real shock came when he licensed the ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane September 20, 2017 2012-10-06T19:59:23-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f95/20121006195944003.jpgFootage from a 1957 newsreel covering ...

When the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into orbit Oct. 4, 1957, the steady, high-pitched signal emitting from Sputnik I was hailed as the beep heard 'round the world. To many, the ...