The Russians launched Sputnik 1 on the 4th October 1957, 7:28 PM.
1957
The launch of Sputnik by USSR
The (former) USSR launch the first satellite. Its name was Sputnik.
Yes. The US didn't think the USSr har the technology to do that.
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".
That America had a comfortable technological advantage over Russia/USSR.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 was directly inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik. There was a fear that U.S. scientists were falling behind educationally.
October 4, 1957 was the exact date of the Sputnik launch.
The first satellite (Sputnik I) was launched by the USSR (Russia) to demonstrate that they could launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
The space race was started by the USSR on October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1.
Sputnik did not launch from the moon, and it did not land on the moon.
No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission
The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4th, 1957 and Explorer 1 was launched on January 31st, 1958--so the answer is 119 days.