Am 4. Oktober 1957 gelang es sowjetischen Forschern, zum erstenmal einen künstlichen Satelliten ("Sputnik") in eine Umlaufbahn um die Erde zu entsenden. Der Sputnik-Start stellte den ersten wichtigen Sieg der Sowjets im Wettlauf mit den USA um die Kontrolle des Weltraums dar.
Jun 2021
Apollo–Soyuz: The End of the Space Race
The space race officially began on October 4, 1957, at 7:28 PM Moscow Time. That was when Sputnik was launched into orbit as the first artificial satellite, and from that moment, it was on. But when did the space race end? That is a much trickier question and there is no formal a ... Show More
10m 30s
Oct 2023
503: DEEP DIVE: The Black Knight Satellite | Ancient Craft Watching us From Orbit
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit.
Or was it?
For over a hundred years, an object has been seen, heard and photographed by people all around the world. This object became known as the Black Knight Satellite.
The signals comi ... Show More
29m 4s
Apr 2021
Gagarin and the lost Moon
On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history, into what had always been the impenetrable and infinite unknown.Raised in poverty during the Second World War, the one-time foundry worker a ... Show More
57m 41s
Jan 2020
Space Junk: How Cluttered Is The Final Frontier?
Since the dawn of Sputnik in 1957, space-faring nations have been filling Earth's orbit with satellites. Think GPS, weather forecasting, telecommunications satellites. But as those have increased, so, too, has space junk. On today's show, we talk about the first mission to clean ... Show More
11m 20s
Apr 2023
Launching Into Space — Sustainably!
In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands. As those objects have collided with one another, they've created more space debris in Earth' ... Show More
12m 54s