Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day in 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago Thursday, the Soviet Union started the Space Age by sending the first man-made satellite into orbit around the earth. Sputnik changed history when it went into space on Oct. 4, 1957, ...