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OSU students test-fire high-altitude rocket motor, reach final 8 in $1M challenge Oregon State University OSU High Altitude Liquid Engine team members bend tubes for a rocket motor test stand. From left are Jacob van de Lindt, Olivia Clark, Devon Burson, Adam Ragle and Colton Harms CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A team from Oregon State University is the first college student group in Oregon to fire a liquid bipropellant rocket engine and one of eight finalists in a $1 million competition to send a rocket to outer space, 100 kilometers from the Earth. “This is an incredible feat,” said David ...

Situation. >> low and behold, he's president and the soviet union puts a man into space, and we look like we are way behind on the space race, and kennedy's there holding the bag. >> i do not regard the first man in space as a sign of the weakening of the free world. >> the space challenge which had begun in the 50s really was a proxy for the cold war. it meant russian seemed to be ahead of us. so another blow for the kennedys during that first 100 days was when a russian went into space. >> i know he was convinced that the battle of the cold war was also a battle for prestige. >> it also remi...

In the soviet union puts him into space and we look like we are way behind on the space race, and kennedy is there holding the bag. >> i do not regard the first man in space as a sign of the weakening of the, of the free worl world. >> the space challenge, which had begun with sputnik in the 1950s was a proxy for the cold war. it meant russia seemed to be ahead of us, so another blow for the kennedys during that first 100 days was that a russian goes up into space. >> i know he was convinced that the battle of the cold war was also a battle for prestitigpres >> it also reminded us that the sov...

Soviet space challenge, we have always risen to meet those challenges. the president will share an optimistic tone about how he knows and he believes that this country will meet those challenges again by investing in research and develop, investing in innovation and education reform, ensuring that the jobs that are created in this world are not just in china or in india, but they're created here. >> is this a more important part of the speech tonight than what we're hearing about a spending freeze? isms i think they go part and parcel. look, we are going to have to make some changes in the amo...