Sentences with phrase «first artificial satellite»

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite — and changed the world.

Growing up in Costa Rica, Chang Díaz became fascinated with all things space in 1957, when the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

Its military launched Sputnik — the world's first artificial satellite — heralding the dawn of the space age.

In 1957 the Soviet Union shocked the world by flying the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, an 83 - kilogram metallic orb about twice the size of a basketball that broadcast a radio message to anyone listening down on Earth.

He noted China's interest in landing people on the moon, an event that probably would trigger a «technology shock» among Americans comparable to what occurred when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, in 1957.

There I saw a newspaper for the first time with the TASS message about the first artificial satellite.

To this day, Oleg Ivanovskiy says he has no idea why he was chosen to oversee the final preparations of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite.

Soviet officials managed to keep the location a secret until U.S. pilots flying U-2 spy planes spotted the cosmodrome in 1957, the same year Sputnik, Earth's first artificial satellite, was launched from the site.

Just as Americans in 1957 quickly grasped the significance of the Soviet Union's historic launch of the world's first artificial satellite — responding aggressively with new investments in research and development (R&D) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education — Americans today are recognizing that we are once again on the brink of a new world.

It has been 60 years since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite.

Just six decades have passed since the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

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.

Because the Sputnik 1 is the first artificial satellite in space, so i directly illustrate straight - forward the shape of...

I saw my first artificial satellite with my naked eyes during the summer of 1994.