Back during the height of the First Cold War, international shortwave station Radio Moscow broadcast news, views, and programming to the West; all reflecting the views of the Soviet government that ...

HOLLYWOOD (UPI) --The motion picture, ''Unidentified Flying Objects," is a documentary account of the flying saucer history from the time the first such object was sighted in 1947 and the nation went ...

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the human race becoming a spacefaring species, Sputnik nostalgia will no doubt be on the rise. And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably primitive ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. The object that started the Space Race was small and deceptively simple. Sputnik 1 ...