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Sputnik, which orbited the earth in just over an hour and a half. >> they tell us the world may never be the same again. >> in 1957, whether i was still in flight school, sputnik was launched. thats the beginning of the space age. >> reporter: the dawn of the space age was the start of the space race. america competing with the soviets for scientific dominance, but in a world where americans dug bomb shelters and worried about missile gaffes, science specialed national security. >> the cold war ...

Displace them. the soviet union back in the 50s, sputnik, little johnny cant read. soviet union is no more. then it was europe. europe is stagnating. then japan. japan was like horror vision in the 80s. the source of paranoia after they bought rockefeller center, this was it. japanese would inherit the world. down to zero growth. to come back to your point, even the greatest powers cant always get their way. but thats been true since the 50s. >> let me ask you as editor and publisher of the news...

With devastating effects on research programs at universities all across the country. not to mention impacts on some aspects of financial aid. >> just in your example, you grew up in public schools and here in the district of columbia, initially segregated. what did the access for federally funded research mean for you and your generation? >> the whole thing meant the confluence of the brown versus board of education supreme court decision and the launch of the "sputnik" satellite which created ...

Less. hop into my sleigh and hold on to your hat. away, reindeer, onward and upward, how about that? so on that night, they started anew. saint nick, venic and his eighth reindeer crew. st. nick offered candy that venic could chew and showed him the cities, the old and new. when they delivered the last christmas toy, st. nick pointed his sleigh toward the star, joy. more rapid than light, they sped through the night and passed sputnik and beat nick and the eagle in flight. st. nick and venic fle...

That -- up in space and had it stick there and the soviets did it first with sputnik, when they beat us in a race we were also running in, it was during president eisenhowers second term. second term. its not like bad things and challenges and failures dont happen in first terms too. but theres something that we understand as americans to be as certain as death and taxes and that is if theres something thats going to suck in a particular presidency, its probably going to happen in the second ter...

Infrastructure, a permanent set of groups that have the blessing of the obama white house. others in the democratic power structure who can go out and raise money. so the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, senator schumer spoke recently at a conference here in washington, a sort of thank-you conference for the donors. paul begala, as you know, worked with the obama -- pro-obama super pacs prior tos u.prioriti. democrats often lose because they try and reinvent the wheel each cycle. this time...

Of difficulty with that issue, particularly in the southwest and it is kind of radioactive for others who may have different points of view to wade into that in the context of this party. the other part is about government projects. mitt romney last night talked about the man on the moon. there was no bigger government project in the 50s and early 60s than nasa and it also spun out a lot of small businesses and a lot of technology that were still realizing today. that was an enormous public inve...

>> come on. >> weve got big problems. >> who invented the skinny jeans. americans invented the skinny jeans. >> now as you look, i spend a lot of times looking and every time i go out to california where im from i am like phil griffin, amazed by whats going on out there. i have more -- a more benign view of government and im not sure that washington is the thing thats in the way and weve managed innovation thats come out of silicon valley has often been helped by washington and the infrastructur...

>> reporter: im just hearing you now, anderson. what i can tell you is that the japanese government is saying that they believe the flying vessel from north korea, they did detect it and that it was in the air for just over one minute. now, the plan was that if that flew over japanese territory, if the rocket broke up and started to threaten this land, that the patriot missile you see behind me, its an intercepter missile, land-to-air, that it would fire off and that it potentially wou...

confronted him and committed murder in the second degree. the defendant appearing by video hookup from the seminole county jail, saying very little. >> mr. zimmerman, youre appearing here for your first appearance -- or first appearance for a charge of murder in the second degree and youre represented by mr. omara is that true? >> yes, sir. >> the judge is ruled that theres probable cause to proceed. mark omara not yet asking for bail. as for zimmermans first night in custody, abc news...