What risks there are. We choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good many very talented scientists, but we did not make a major effort in this area for many years. And were 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 . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into outer space. Hes 27. Its a great historic scientific feat. At that time, we didnt really know whether a human could survive in space. And here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space. And he survived. Yuri gigiden was something that affected american prowess. That we are ahead of everybody. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war. There was competit
And do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good many very talented scientists, but we did not make a major effort in this area for many years. And were 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 . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into outer space. Hes 27. Its a great historic scientific feat. At that time, we didnt 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. That we are ahead of everybody. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war. There was competition of the great super powers. Mr. President , cou
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