guyver01
Lifer
- Sep 25, 2000
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It sounds like you're disputing the very notion of a "Sputnik moment." You know, it was the POTUS who used the term in the SOTU address, right?
No.. i'm disputing your very idiotic, very Tea Bagger statement:
USSR got an object into space (or orbit) long before the US did, when typical Americans had never thought about that kind of engineering challenge.
FOUR MONTHS... is NOT "long before the US" ... and the fact the US almost did it a year before the Russians shows americans were THINKING about that challenge long before the russians did. In Fact... the russians were scared the american test was a failed launch and they were lagging way behind.
