October 4, 1957 was the exact date of the Sputnik launch.
The first country to send a satellite into space was the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
A new chapter in US space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket, Bumper 2, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958.Other notable first flights include the following:Jan 1958 - US launched its first Earth satellite, Explorer 1Dec 1958 - US launched the first communications satellite SCORE into space.April 1960 - US launched the first weather satellite, TIROS-1
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, as the world's first artificial satellite. It was a response to the U.S. plans to launch a satellite for the International Geophysical Year. Sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the space race between the two superpowers during the Cold War.
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union.
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October 4, 1957 was the exact date of the Sputnik launch.
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was launched by the USSR (Russia) in 1957. Following its launch on October 4, Russia launched Sputnik 2 on November 3. Sputnik 3 was not launched until May, 1958 following the US Explorer and Vanguard satellites in January and March.
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The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in space in 1961.
The first successful earth-orbiting artificial satellite was launched from the USSR in October 1957. Once it had achieved orbit, its name was announced to the world as "Sputnik-1".
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The first country to send a satellite into space was the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
A new chapter in US space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket, Bumper 2, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958.Other notable first flights include the following:Jan 1958 - US launched its first Earth satellite, Explorer 1Dec 1958 - US launched the first communications satellite SCORE into space.April 1960 - US launched the first weather satellite, TIROS-1
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"Sputnik-1" was launched on October 4, 1957, from the USSR (Russia). That wasn't the first attempt, but it was the first one that successfully achieved orbit and stayed up there for a while.