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 ...

Festival goers enjoy last year's “re-enactment” of the day a piece of Sputnik IV landed in Manitowic. It came from outer space…. and crashed down in the middle of a street in Manitowoc ...

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 ...