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Khrushchev, Schorr Look Back on Sputnik
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NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
09-29-2007
Khrushchev, Schorr Look Back on Sputnik
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 12:00-13:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
Fifty years ago, the skies above has got a little more crowded. The Soviet Union launched a shiny sphere about the size of a basketball into outer space. Radio Moscow made an announcement that stunned the world.
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