In The Moment ... Sixty Years After Sputnik

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In The Moment ... October 4, 2017 Show 191 Hour 1

It was the beep heard round the world, and it ushered in an era of fear in America. The launch of the world's first satellite occurred 60 years ago today. With Sputnik in space ... the race for security quickly came to South Dakota. Joe Brehm, Chief of Interpretation at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in western South Dakota.

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