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today a new moon is in the sky a 23 inch

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metal sphere placed in orbit by a

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Russian rocket and that they arrive

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October for 1957 I was hitter with a

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Sputnik was launched and I remember

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going out in the parking lot and with a

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number of other people and looking at

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flying it overhead feeling a keen sense

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of admiration but disappointment that

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that was not ours because as you

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remember the United States was was very

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shaken to Billiat to recognize that this

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little contraption launched by this by

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the Soviets was happily going across the

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United States several times a day and we

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couldn't do a thing about it we've been

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assigned the mission and launching a

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scientific earth satellite and we will

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use the Jupiter see configuration as a

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carrier that we developed along with the

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory I promise to

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Secretary of the army that we would be

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this is what they've been waiting for

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but deadline is 90 days 90 days to put a

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satellite into orbit a crash program an

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emergency and then of course when we got

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to go ahead to launch Explorer one we

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took enormous pride in that I really

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believe that explore one was the first

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landmark of space exploration because

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although it followed Sputnik explore one

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had science instruments on it and so is