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American Experience
1988
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American Experience
The Satellite Sky 3 Season 7 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault on our national pride, even a threat to national security. Using news reels, commercials, television shows, government films, and science fiction movies, the film presents a uniquely impressionistic history of the early years of the Space Race.
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