CNN The Sixties November 28, 2015 08:03:00
That we are ahead of everybody. now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war. there was competition of the great super powers. >> mr. president, could you give us your view, sir, about the soviet achievement of putting a man in orbit, and what it would mean to our space program? >> it is the most impressive scientific accomplishment. i already sent congratulations to khrushchev and to the man that was in...
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