[FPSPACE] FW: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Goes to Space

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: american_experience at wgbh.org (American Experience)
>To: american-experience at franz.wgbh.org (American Experience List)
>Subject: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Goes to Space
>Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2007 17:20:45 -0400 (EDT)
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>Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the first
>artificial satellite: Sputnik.  Weighing only 183 pounds and
>measuring 22 inches in diameter (the size of a beach ball),
>Sputnik's launch ushered in a new political, military, and
>technological era, and marked the start of the US-Soviet Space
>Race.
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>Only eleven years later,  on December 24, 1968, NASA would launch
>its most daring and important mission: Apollo 8, the first manned
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>AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: RACE TO THE MOON
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>Zero gravity, waste in space, capsule contraband,
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>- Behind the Scenes with Kevin Kertscher
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>Producer, writer, and director Kevin Michael Kertscher takes you
>behind the scenes of his film, Race to the Moon, in this article
>for Ad Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society.
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>And, in this week's podcast, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE talks to Roger
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