Since the unseen fiery deaths of Sputniks I and II, the edge of space near the earth had belonged to three small U.S. satellites, playing like baby bluefish in an ocean. Last week the Russians ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 4, 1957 -- (AP)--The Russians announced tonight they used improved new sources of power to fire aloft Sputnik II, the half-ton satellite rocketing a dog through the empty miles of space.

Myriads of words have been uttered on the scientific, political and military implications of Sputnik, but little has been said about its religious implications. Is this a sign of the times? In 4 B.C.