Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

A homage to its historic imprint on Italian design, the '50s Saliscendi lamps by brothers Achille, Livio and Pier Giacomo ...

After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age (Smithsonian Books, Washington, 2007). Google Scholar Dickson, P. Sputnik: Shock of the Century (Walker, New York, 2001).

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...