WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The satellite, an 85-kilogram (187-pound) metal sphere the size of a basketball, was launched on a huge rocket and orbited Earth at 29, 000 kilometers per hour (18, 000 miles per hour) for three months.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler, ” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.

Detailed explanation-3: -The criticism of American education, especially its public schools, increased immensely with the launching of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, by the Soviet Union in October 1957.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam (370 km southwest of the small town of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan.