WASHINGTON – America is on the brink of a new Cuban Missile Crisis — this ... in the nation’s capital. “The Space Age began when Russia launched Sputnik in 1957. The eyes of the world ...

In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Baikonur on a test flight, followed by the launch of Sputnik I ... the first human in space.

The top US general has said China's suspected hypersonic missile test is close to a Sputnik moment, referring to the Soviet satellite launch that sparked a Cold War arms race. Chairman of the ...

Twice in the summer, the Chinese military launched a rocket into space that circled the globe ... of modernised nuclear forces and missile defences to take away their nuclear deterrent," says ...

On November 3rd 1957 the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik II spacecraft into orbit ... If the first artificial moon had not been followed into space by a fellow-traveller, it might just ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Western media covered the ...

The radar is like a super-powerful "eye in the sky" that can monitor and alert against dangers well in advance, making it an ...