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  • Date > 1969-05-23 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal