We have a good many talented scientists but we didnt make an effort for many years and were behind and paying the price of having the soviet union and mode the propaganda advantage of sputnik. I have marvin caul. Marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into the United States. Hes 27. Its a great historic scientific state. At that time, we didnt know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. He was something to the effect american proudness. 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. President , could you give us your view sir of the soviet achievement of putting a man in or bit and what it would mean to our Space Program . Its the most impressive scientific accomplishment. I already sent congratul