Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Space exploration in one life time
In 1957, several years before I was born, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik - the first man-made object to leave the Earth's atmosphere. That simple little satellite captured people's imagination around the world. We Americans were alarmed that the Soviets had "beat us" to space. Sputnik therefore helped spur both the U.S. space effort and such things as better education for our kids in math and science.
It didn't take long for us to catch up to the accomplishments of the Soviets. When I was a baby in the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy famously said we should put a man on the moon with...
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