Bluffton radio "Ham" traps voice of Russian Sputnik on tape recorder
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Remember Sputnik? Only if you were alive in October 1957. Three stories in the Bluffton News that year reveal local fascination and questions about this first-ever successful artificial satellite. Sputnik ignited the space race. It fed U.S. fears that our nation had fallen behind in developing new technology. It in turn, intensified the
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