Sputnik 1's liftoff on Oct. 4, 1957 sparked worries in the U.S., made all the more vexing by the embarrassing and humiliating ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The satellite Vanguard 1, launched on March 17, 1958, became the oldest man-made satellite still orbiting Earth. After 67 years in space, a group of scientists, aerospace engineers ...

A team of scientists is developing plans to return to Earth the American Vanguard-1 satellite, which spent 67 years in space. Vanguard-1, which is the size of a grapefruit, was launched in March 1958 ...

On March 17, 1958, the Navy launched the Vanguard 1 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, was sent into space on Jan. 31, 1958, some three months after the ...

As the United States waited for Vanguard to re-launch, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency launched Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, on January 31, 1958 (see "Then & Now,"). Chris Hagen ...