October 5: The Soviet daily newspaper Pravda mentions Sputnik in a short piece at the bottom of page one. When bold headlines and major stories run in British and American newspapers, the U.S.S.R.

The race to space continues, with the number of rockets launched increasing every year. Most of these send satellites into orbit. A smaller number are for defense operations, space exploration and ...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had an emotional message before he and three colleagues set off for the Moon earlier this year on the Artemis II mission: “We go for all humanity”. To stop this race ...

A pivotal episode in the U.S. space program is recast as a high school adventure in this 2001 family drama, set at Cape Canaveral during the early 1960s. Billy (Alex D. Linz) is harassed at school and ...