we have a good many talented scientists but we did not make an effort for many years and we re now behind and paying the price of having the soviet union exploit the propaganda advantage of sputnik as well as the flight of mr. gagarin. i have marvin kalb, cbs news correspondent, on the phone now. marvin, is there any doubt in your mind that this happened, that the russians put a man in space? i m almost certain the russians did fire a man into outer space. his name is gagarin. he s 27. it s a great historic scientific feat. at that time, we didn t know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. yuri gagarin was something
we have a good many talented scientists but we didn t make an effort for many years and we re behind and paying the price of having the soviet union exploit the propaganda advantage of sputnik. i have marvin cal. cbs news correspondent in moscow. marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space? i m almost certain the russians did fire a man into the united states. he s 27. it s a great historic scientific feat. at that time, we didn t know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. he was something that affected american prowess.
we have a good many very talented scientists, but we did not make a major effort in this area for many years. and we re now behind and paying the price of having the soviet union exploit the propaganda advantage of sputnik. i have marvin cal, cbs news correspondent in moscow on the phone now. marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space? i m almost certain the russians did fire a man into outer space. he s 27. it s a great historic scientific feat. at that time, we didn t really know whether a human could survive in space. and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space. and he survived. yuri gagarin was something that affected american prowess.
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