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This item is only available for Canadian orders.
Catalogue Number: 041397
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Documentary, History, Science
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 56
Closed Captions: Yes
NOVA: Sputnik Declassified
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: 041397
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Documentary, History, Science
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 56
Closed Captions: Yes
The world changed fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking news that the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first satellite, Sputnik I. Why didn't the U.S. beat the Soviets in this first crucial round of the space race? NOVA details the previously untold story of the technological and political missteps that made the U.S. lose out to the Soviets' bleeping electronic basketball.
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