i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik. i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know course like me he just can't believe the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and the russia and soviet union something they could really be proud of now you've sat if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have had public support for the taxes that were required to beat the commies as an air force pilot how did the cold war motivate you well i was chasing him and i say dirty commies i well i'd probably bet it but. i was chasing russian bombers soviet bombers around iceland and carrying nuclear rockets to shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement about we're going to go to the moon had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particula

certainly the soviets are now the russians with the sputnik inverted garron the missile gap will make america look really bad when you think of gary and what us are symbolized to me. i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik and gargan i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know like me he just had to be at the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and that the russia and soviet union. something they could really be proud of now you've set if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have had probably support for the taxes that were required to beat those thirty comments as an air force pilot how it fits the cold war motivate you well i was chasing when i say dirty commies i well i'm probably better but. i was tracing you know russian bombers soviet monitors around iceland carrying nuclear rockets to shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political supp

. >> cbs television has a special report on the launch of sputnik. >> the launch of sputnik in the eisenhowered states with a ballistic missile. >> this was being done by the only other country in the world that could destroy this country. >> russia launched sputnik and then launched an astronaut into orbit and john kennedy as president said, hey, what's going on here? we need to get in the game. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> it was a big idea. in fact, it was one of the biggest ideas of all time. >> we proceeded with the mercury program. >> godspeed, john glenn. >> the gemini program and finally the development phase of the apollo program. >> liftoff. we have liftoff of apollo 11. >> when it came time for the moon landing, this was a seminal event in living rooms across america. >> man's first trip to the moon. >> walter became really america's expert on the space program. it was his favorite story. >> the eagle has landed. >> it was such a happy time wh

. >> beatnik or "sputnik." >> fair enough. back in a second. >>> that's our show for this week. before we go, the word that needs to be used more often. >> i'm fond of the word this means yawning and stretching at the same time. >> we have two words here. pandiculation. word of the week. we'll look for it on the internet. thank you, erin. >>> that's our show for the week. find your guide to digital rights we discussed earlier eff and words of the day add wordnik.com. i'm scott mcgrew. thank you for making us part of your sunday morning.

. >> reporter: in 1957, the soviets launched the sputnik satellite and the space race. >> the first man: four years later, cosmonaut yuri gregarian went to space and round one get to the soviet union. >> one small step for man -- >> eight years later, the u.s. evens the score by putting a man on the moon. >> but the cost of this race helped bankrupt the soviet union and end the cold war. only america could afford to go on building space shuttles. the russians stuck with a 1960s era soyuz. >> i don't think we could have a more dependable alternative than we have right now with the soyuz. >> dependable, yes, and a monopoly, which lets the russians charge nasa $60 million a ride. there are undercurrents of resentment at nasa that america's space program is now hostage to russian technology. >> you hear that? >> yes, yes, absolutely. >> does it make you mad? >> no, i think it's political. >> starved for money for most of the '90s, the dilapidated space program seemed to prove they lost the space race. selling seats on the soyuz for american astronauts at least lets them call it a draw. eliz

the whole world that america wasn't second rate when certainly the soviets now the russians with sputnik in garg era and the missile gap were making america look really bad well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe or it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in a more expansive way. religious leaders from russia and georgia are uniting to celebrate the christianization of ancient russia they are in ukraine and were at the end of the town century prince a lot of their force thousands to convert georgia's patriarchial ya is on his first official visit to ukraine he is due to meet with his russian counterpart to discuss the strained relations between the two states who cut off diplomatic ties more than five years ago this year t. of has prepared massive celebrations to mark the pivotal moment russia became part of the world's christian community. that brings us up to date here in r.t. i'll be b

to the whole world that america was a second rate when certainly the soviets now the russians with sputnik and our guarantee the missile gap were making america look really bad well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in a more expansive way. and i'll be back with a recap our top stories shortly but first it's business news with marino. hello and welcome to business here on r.g.p. and we start this hour with or oil russia may be rich and the thought that doesn't show up the petrol pumps motorists are have been so concerned with rising prices and in some cases shortages the problems have been put down to a higher duty and intervention in the markets and it's got to the stage the government is considering allowing a low grade class to petrol back on the market petrified areas in russia have been reluctant to convert to the higher class three standards bu

. >> reporter: 1957, the soviets launched the sputnik satellite and the space race. >> the first man>> reporter: four years later, cosmonaut yuri gagarin went into orbit and round one went to the soviet union. >> that's one small step for man... >> reporter: eight years later, though, the u.s. evened up the score by putting a man on the moon. but the astronomical costs of this race helped bankrupt the soviet union and end the cold war. only america could afford to go on building space shuttles. the russians stuck with the 1960s-era soyuz, which did bring cady coleman safely back to earth just last month. does it make you uneasy that there's no plan "b" anymore? it's the soyuz or nothing? >> i don't think we could have a more dependable alternative than we have right now with the soyuz. >> reporter: dependable, yes, and a monopoly which lets the russians charge nasa $60 million a ride, contributing roughly 10% of the entire space budget. of course, $60 million buys more than just a round-trip ticket on the soyuz. every american astronaut who comes here to the russian space center gets

what some publically dismissed as a political stunt was privately considered a sputnik-like moment.d cables published by wikileaks the rest of the world began scrambling to get a piece of the arctic pie. that's how i came to be t n the arctic circle to see the escalating tension and activity in the region. oh, yeah. that's brisk. at daybreak, we headed out to rendezvous with one of the two u.s. nuclear submarines patrolling in the arctic. you know "planes, trains & automobiles"? the cnn version is ice planes, helicopters and submarines. the helicopter dropped us and our equipment at the rendezvous site. a three-foot thick sheet of ice several miles from base camp. with no ocean in sight, hundreds of miles from the nearest cell phone tower it was hard to imagine how a submarine would find me. >> are we a go for icemansur fasing? >> reporter: an x in the ice indicated where the sub was to surface. then the ground started to rumble. with 18 feet of the 353-foot long sea wolf class sub on the surface, the ground crew takes chainsaws to cut their way through the ice to the hull. the then

what some publicly dismissed as a political stunt was privately considered in some circles a sputnik-likeed cables published by wick kwikil the rest of the world began scrambling to make sure they got a piece of the arctic pie. i observed the escalating tension and activity in the region. oh, yeah, that's brisk. at daybreak we headed out to rendezvous with 1 of the 2 u.s. nuclear submarines patrolling in the arctic. you know, planes, trains and automobiles? the cnn version? ice planes, helicopters and submarines. the helicopter dropped ussate and o and our equipment at the rendezvous site. with no ocean in site hundreds of miles from the nearest cell phone tower it was hard to imagine how on earth a submarine would find me. >> are we a go for ice man surface? over. >> reporter: an "x" in the ice indicated where the submarine was to surface. then the ground started to rumble. with 18 feet of the 353-foot long sea wolf class sub on the surface, the ground crew takes chain sauce to cut through the ice to the hole. then-commanding officer is first up from the hole. >> this is aamazing. >> rep

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the first one went up in '57, that was sputnik by the soviet union.america got a satellite in space 31st of january 1958. a couple months later i came here and was fortunate to get a job with a great company like nbc news and so i've been here ever since and i've been fortunate to not being sick during one of the astronaut launches. today was number 166. frankly, it will be at least four years before we have another space launch from cape canaveral with astronauts, possibly five. i hope to be here for number 167, matt. >> we hope so, too, jay. thanks for all your years of bringing this to the country and to nbc's and msnbc's viewers. >>> coming up, license to thrill. we're talking to the author behind the latest book in the bond franchise and finding out what the world's most famous spy is drinking these days. here's a hint. it's not shaken or stirred. ♪ [ female announcer ] something unexpected to the world of multigrain... taste. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. with a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. dr. scholl's custom fit orthot

back to when in 1957 or i don't have the date exactly fixed in my mind, the beginning space age with sputnik and how there was this huge gap where we were caught flat footed and the president pushed us forward in so many ways. did you ever imagine that we would be, you know, cooperating with the russians and relying with them to take our astronauts to the space shuttle? >> not now. no way. you know, that was up until 1975. you remember you and i covered jimmy carter together. >> yes, we did. >> andrea was in elementary school then. but we covered -- >> just a kid reporter. >> and after that i came back down here and we had first shuttle launch on april 12th, 1981. since then, there's been 134, number 135 is coming up friday or this weekend if the weather is bad. and that will make a total of 166 missions. and thank goodness, knock on wood, i've been healthy and have covered them all. it's been quite a ride. >> you are amazing. what a ride it is. thank you so much, jay. i know you're going to be there. tamron hall will lead msnbc's coverage of the launch friday morning. don't miss it. >>> up

recent books include the hidden language of baseball, "and sputnik" the shock of the century. he's a founding member and former president of washington independent writers and a member of the national press club. thomas a. allen is the author of "george washington spiremaster" chosen by the new york public library as one of the 100 best children's books of 2004. and co-author of "spybooks, the book of espionage," the principle sourcebook for the international spy museum. also a member of the press club, he's written extensively for national geographic society and has appeared on television as an authority on military and intelligence subjects. please welcome paul dickson and thomas a. allen. [applause] >> thanks a lot. we're extremely happy to be here tonight. this has been a long odyssey for tom and myself. and people always said, how did this thing start? how did you get this idea? and i think i was probably the one that first started to think about this. i kept -- the question that came to me was, why was this big event, this -- i thought turning point. why was it always so

we face a sputnik moment and it's fitting that the president used a space metaphor to describe where america was in fact at that moment and we came in in the midst of a recession. we were focused like a laser on creating the jobs and new industries of the future. we knew that coming out of world war ii, half of economic growth came from innovation but at the same time i think we were concerned we had fallen behind in a few key indicators, so for civil american 15-year-olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science when compared to other nations around the world, so we knew we needed to crank up the innovation in jim. number two, we were faced with the imminent retirement of the space shuttle which the bush administration set at the end of 2010. the gao had highlighted for whoever won the election last time that this would be one of the key 13 issues in the administration would need to look at and get under the hood and figure out because there wasn't an adequate strategy going forward. furred, the other issue that we face is the critical environmental science and technological innovati

first we faced a sputnik moment and it's fitting that the president used a space metaphor to describemerica was in fact at that moment, and we came in the midst of a recession. we were focused like a laser on creating the jobs and the new industries of the future. we knew coming out of world war ii half of economic growth came from innovation but at the same time i think we were concerned we had fallen behind in a few key indicators. so for example american 15 urals ranked 25th in math and 21st in science when compared to other nations around the world so we knew we needed to crank up the innovation engine. number two, we are faced with the imminent retirement of the space shuttle which the bush administration has a date certain that the end of 2010. the gao had highlighted for whoever won the election last time that this would be one of the key 13 issues that any administration would need to take a look at to get under the hood and figure out because there wasn't an adequate strategy going forward. ferre, the other issue that we face is critical environmental science and technologica

i was a sputnik kid in 1957 when sputnik was launched, i was 6 years old. my brother was 11.parents, we were scared to death because the soviets were ahead of us in space now, and they had nuclear weapons, and my parents took us into our living room in minnesota and said, boys, you are going to have to study math and science to beat the soviets, and i thought that was kind of a big burden to put on an 11-year-old and 6-year-old. [laughter] but we were obedient sons and studied math and science, and what do you know, my parents were right, we studied math and science, and we beat the soviets, my brother and me. [laughter] and the benefits from the space program were just -- i was watching debate during the last campaign, and the republican candidate for senator said that the government had never created a job, and i noticed that ironically the debate was carried on satellite. [laughter] we built the interstate highway system. this is -- i just, you know, and now i know that we're not going to get, you know, we're not going to get a big stimulus package so i'm looking for diffe

i was a sputnik kid. in 1957 when sputnik was launched, i was 6 years old. my brother was 11.were scared to death because the soviets were ahead of us in space now and they had nuclear weapons. my parents took us into our living room in minnesota and said boys, you are going to have to study math and science to beat the soviets. i thought that was kind of a big burden to put on an 11-year-old and a 6-year-old. [laughter] but we were obedient sons, so we studied math and science, and would you not know it, my parents were right, we studied math and science and we beat the soviets, my brother and me. [laughter] and the benefits of the space program are -- i was watching a debate during the last campaign, and the republican candidate for senator said that the government has never created a job. i noticed, ironically, that the debate was carried on satellite. [laughter] we build the interstate highway system. this is -- i just -- you know, so now i know, we're not going to get a big stimulus package. so i'm looking for different ways to -- different models to build jobs. you know,

my brother and i were sputnik kids. my brother owen was 11 and i was 6 when sputnik was launched. my parents took us into the living room and sat us down and told the two of us that we had to study math and science in order to beat the soviets. i thought that was an awful big burden to place on an 11-year-old and a 6-year-old, but we were obedience sons. and so we studied math and science. and wouldn't you know it, my parents were right. we beat the soviets. the space program created all kinds of dividends in technology and to our economic development. i watched the senate debate last fall in which the republican sencandidate said that the government had never created a job. the debate of course was broadcast by satellite. i think you get the idea. the fact is, the investments we made in it the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's in science and technology, in state universities and infrastructure that was the envy of the world brought our debt as a percentage of g.d.p. from 121% in 1945 to 33% in 1980. erskine bowles was right. we can't get out of our current debt with growth alone. but i will

the here is the sputnik moment, we're depending on russ russia get to us space. sign of weakness and foreign intelligence service, 24,000 secrets and wikileaks post these on the web, weakness, we're sending signals of american weakness. reiterated by david ignatius in the washington post, an interesting piece about president obama not looking at american exceptionalism and leading from behind. >> the afghan withdrawal. the military commanders say keep the surge troops in place, he's more interested in ending the war. my old boss donald rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. if you keep sending these signals, it will come back to bite us. >> thank you for being in the studio. coming up on show. imagine sleeping in a tent and a bear breaks in. >> ainsley: no thanks. >> clayton: it happened to a 13-year-old. >> ainsley: wow. >> clayton: everyone's fear of camping. >> ainsley: and everything is on the table now. brings tal palin sits down on our curvy couch. what she nis about john mccain and her mom sarah palin potentially running for president. >> she's up next. @

what some publicly dismissed as a political stunt was privately considered in some circles a sputnik-likeent. according to secret leaked cables published by wikileaks the rest of the world began scrambling to make sure they got a piece of the arctic pie. that's how i came to be at a u.s. navy facility in the arctic circle to observe the escalating tension and activity in the region. >> oh, yeah. that's brisk. >> reporter: at daybreak we headed out to rendezvous with one of the two u.s. nuclear submarines patrolling in the arctic. >> you know planes, trains and automobiles? the cnn version, ice planes, helicopters, and submarines. >> reporter: the helicopter dropped us and our equipment at the rendezvous site. a three-foot-thick sheet of ice several miles away from the base camp. with no ocean in sight, hundreds of miles from the nearest cell phone tower, it was hard to imagine how on earth a submarine would find me. >> are we a go for ice man surfacing? over. >> reporter: an x in the ice indicated where the submarine was to surface. then the ground started to rumble. >> all right, kaj, yo