Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110128:07:03:00
Often repeated the sputnik moment that he would aspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space. yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> well, the soviet union went down after the failure of the attempted coup out there yeltsin on the tanks, standing up against the red army. that was in 1991 in august. sputnik was in '57. so the connection here -- let me go to melinda -- the connection with the space race ...