When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957 he had to play catchup in the space race.

) Additional inspiration for GPS came when the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik in 1957.

Laika, a stray dog, originally named Kudryavka ( Little Curly ), underwent training with two other dogs, and was eventually chosen as the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.

After the success of Sputnik 1, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, wanted a spacecraft launched on November 7, 1957, the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, thus starting the Space Age.

The world's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer ( there is a crater on the lunar far side which bears his name ).

Sputnik 2 was launched on November 3, 1957 and carried the first living passenger into orbit, a dog named Laika.

A search of the NSSDC Master Catalog at the end of October 2010 listed 6, 578 satellites launched into orbit since 1957, the latest being Chang ' e 2, on 1 October 2010.

The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.

The first orbiting space probe, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

A surprise came in 1957 ; a satellite named Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviets.

* January 4 – Sputnik 1 ( launched on October 4, 1957 ) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up.

It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.

The first artificial satellite was the Soviet Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957 and equipped with an onboard radio-transmitter that worked on two frequencies: 20. 005 and 40. 002 MHz.

Thalidomide, launched by Grünenthal on 1 October 1957, was found to act as an effective tranquilizer and painkiller, and was proclaimed a " wonder drug " for insomnia, coughs, colds, and headaches.

In October 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik.

However, before work was completed, the Soviet Union launched a second satellite, Sputnik 2, on November 3, 1957.

* HMS Grafton, a Blackwood-class ( Type 14 ) frigate launched in 1957 and broken up in 1971

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, which became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

Both the Soviet Union and the U. S. launched artificial satellites for this event ; the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 October 4 1957 was the first successful artificial satellite.

To the surprise of many, the USSR launched Sputnik 1 as the first artificial Earth satellite on October 4 1957.

The CF-105 Arrow was rolled out on October 4, 1957, coincidentally the very same day the USSR launched Sputnik 1 into orbit, heralding the dawn of the space age and potentially the end of the Arrow's main target, the longe-range bomber.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

After working on the commentary for Resnais ' film Le mystère de l ' atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia.

At the state level, from 1957 to 1989, the Country Party under Frank Nicklin and Joh Bjelke-Petersen dominated governments in Queensland -- the last six of those years ruling in its own right, without the Liberals.

From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards ( often arranged quite different from the original ), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

They began writing their own songs in 1955, and made their first professional recording, " Hey, Schoolgirl ", for Sid Prosen of Big Records in 1957.

Aldous Huxley had suggested to Humphrey Osmond in 1957 his own coinage phanerothymic ( Greek " phanero -" visible + Greek " thymic " spiritual, thus " visible spirituality ").

He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963.

Between 1957 and 1960, the incidental track was basically by symphonic arrangements, being Ruff and Reddys series had its own symphonic themes.

When Hanna and Barbera started their own cartoon studio in 1957, they created a handful of sound effects, and had limited choices.

Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam from 1958, following the death of his father in 1957, until the end of his own life.

The Bonneville, a sub-series of the Star Chief introduced with the 1957 models, then became its own line.

Economically, the country followed up on the Soviet model of Five-Year Plans with its own first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957.

Macmillan believed that one way to encourage such co-operation would be for the United Kingdom to speed up the development of its own hydrogen bomb, which was successfully tested on 8 November 1957.

Consequently Heinemann dissolved his party in 1957 and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), whose aims were relatively close to his own.

Casselberry established a contract post office in 1957 at its own expense and the town was finally granted a post office in 1959, although Hibbard Casselberry lived another ten years.

Herculaneum had its own Douglass Elementary School ( closed in 1957 ) that was operated by the public school system prior to integration in the mid 1950s.

Poulenc himself was a pianist in many recordings, including some of his own songs ( with Pierre Bernac, recorded in 1947, and Rose Dercourt ) and the Concerto for Two Pianos ( recorded in May 1957 ).

However, in 1957 the Labor Party split resulted not only in Labor falling from power, but also in Forde being defeated in his own seat after a disputed and re-run election ; he lost by only one vote.

Mindful of the enormous success of the Philharmonia Chorus, founded in 1957 by Legge to work with his Philharmonia Orchestra, the LSO decided to establish its own chorus.

Louise Goepfert March, who became a pupil of Gurdjieff's in 1929, started her own groups in 1957 and founded the Rochester Folk Art Guild in the Finger Lakes region of New York State ; her efforts were closely linked to the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York.

While designing a scanner for reactor fuel elements in 1957, Argonne physicist William Nelson Beck put his own arm inside the scanner and obtained one of the first ultrasound images of the human body.

He was honoured in his own country by being made an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1953 ), Colonel-General ( 1968 ), and three times a Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1945, 1957, 1972 ).

After his Ohio and Minnesota tours in the summer of 1957, he decided to form his own band with members closer to his age.

Fleming had based the actual character on American gold tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr .. Fleming also used a number of his own experiences within the book, and the round of golf played with Goldfinger was based upon a tournament in 1957 at the Berkshire Golf Club in which Fleming partnered the Open winner Peter Thomson.