Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180718:05:53:00
Prospects for success were slim. it was the navy's vanguard rocket the project that had been given the go ahead instead of fund runs. the honor of the u.s. was supposed to be restored on december sixth one nine hundred fifty seven eight weeks after the sputnik one launch. but the rocket exploded on the launch pad. the press called it a flop nick. but the p.r. disaster gave an afront brown the opportunity he needed he was well prepared to make his redstone rocket ready to go into space he'd never given up his plans to launch a satellite even though i was an hour ahead ordered him to abandon the...