* 1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

The Explorer program was later reestablished to catch up with the Soviet Union after that nation's launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

The first launch took place on 15 May 1957 and led to an unintended crash 400 km from the site.

It was the same R-7 launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957.

* On This Day, November 3 – 1957: Russians launch dog into space.

On July 31, the Soviets announced that they intended to launch a satellite by the fall of 1957.

The United States Space Surveillance Network ( SSN ), a division of The United States Strategic Command, has been tracking objects in Earth's orbit since 1957 when the Soviets opened the space age with the launch of Sputnik I.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

This atmosphere was further inflamed by the 1957 launch of Sputnik, which led to fears of Communists attacking from space, as well as concerns that if the Soviets could launch a device into orbit, they could equally cause a device to re-enter the atmosphere and impact any part of the planet.

The NDEA was influenced by the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957.

The characters refer to years after ES ( Era Sputnik ), based on the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.

The U. S. Navy's attempt to put the first U. S. satellite into orbit failed with the launch of the Vanguard TV3 on December 6, 1957.

Such a launch did not occur until early 1958 as part of Project Vanguard, after the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 in October 1957.

On November 8 1957 the US Secretary of Defense instructed the US Army to use a modified Jupiter-C rocket to launch a satellite.

At its launch attempt on December 6, 1957 at Cape Canaveral, the booster ignited and began to rise ; but about two seconds after liftoff, after rising about four feet ( 1. 2 m ), the rocket lost thrust and began to fall back to the launch pad.

It effectively began with the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 artificial satellite on 4 October 1957, and concluded with the co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project human spaceflight mission in July 1975.

The MX-1593 program evolved to become the Atlas-A, with its maiden launch occurring on 11 June 1957, becoming the first successful American ICBM.

In separate announcements, just four days apart, both nations publicly announced that they would launch artificial Earth satellites by 1957 or 1958.

On 29 July 1955, James C. Hagerty, president Dwight D. Eisenhower's press secretary, announced that the United States intended to launch " small Earth circling satellites " between 1 July 1957 and 31 December 1958 as part of their contribution to the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ).

With attention turning to space after the launch of Sputnik in 1957, Bull leaked a story that Canada would soon match this feat by placing a high-velocity gun in the nose of a US Army Redstone missile.

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

DARPA was established during 1958 ( as ARPA ) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U. S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies.

The launching of Sputnik in 1957 at the height of the cold war gave rise to a number of intellectually competitive approaches to disciplinary knowledge, such as BSCS biology PSSC physics, led by university professors such as Jerome Bruner and Jerrold Zacharias.

Changes in educational establishments came about as Americans and Europeans felt they had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically after the success of Sputnik in October, 1957.

) 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.

* 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2.

* 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

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.

This struggle occurred later in the Southwest than elsewhere and persisted through the Sputnik era after 1957 when it collapsed, as the national mood inspired increased trust in science in general and support for evolution in particular.

The name was chosen in an internal contest in 1957, the year of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, had been put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957, and this could be considered the beginning of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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