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A number of the explorers who made that trip have passed away. the rest are now in their late 70s and some 80s, but the story they tell still sounds like something out of the future and not the past. it is a story about how america with a combination of vision and high-tech know how and good old-fashioned courage answered the challenge of a rival and stepped into the unknown and achieved what seems as unbelievable today as it wasun a half century ago. it was october 4th, 1957 at the height of th...

Like something from the future, not the past. it is a story about how america was a combination of vision, high-tech know how and good old fashioned courage answered the challenge of a rival, stepped into the unknown and achieved what almost seems as unbelievable today as it was a half century ago. it was october 4, 1957, at the height of the cold war the soviets launched a beachball size satellite that orbited the earth for an hour. >> the world may never be the same. >> in 1957 condition i was...

Into the unknown and achieved what almost seems as unbelievable today as it was a half century ago. >> it was october 4th, 1957, and at the height of the cold war. the soviets launched a satellite named sputnik which orbited the earth in over an hour and a half. >> they tell us the world may never be the same again. >> in 1957 when i was still in flight school sputnik was launched the beginning of the space age. >> the dawn of the space age was the start of the space race. america competing with...

What almost seems as unbelievable today as it was a half century ago. >> it was october 4th, 1957, and at the height of the cold war. the soviets launched a satellite named sputnik which orbited the earth in over an hour and a half. >> they tell us the world may never be the same again. >> in 1957 when i was still in flight school sputnik was launched the beginning of the space age. >> the dawn of the space age was the start of the space race. america competing with the soviets for scientific do...

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Though in the fourth year of republican presidency this would be a platform for a campaign speech. it surely will be for president obama tonight. he will talk about economic fairness and he will talk about the expiration of the bush tax cuts for the wealthyest. he will make a centerpiece for the fall campaign. he extended them last year and if the middle-class was under such a threat, why want wasnt he talking about it then? why is he going tell us tonight that the middle-class is make or break ...

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Interested in the hard facts. and what she said about this. >> half a century ago when the soviets beat us into space with the launch of the satellite called sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. the science wasnt even there yet. nasa didnt exist. but after investing in better research and education, we didnt just surpass the soviets, we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. this is our generations sputnik moment. >> so that wa...