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The History of the Space Program

Lectures in History by C-SPAN

Feb 2, 202693:47Society & Culture

In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the USSR & US into a space race. Teasel Muir-Harmony of the Air & Space Museum chronicles the history of space travel and how the U.S. landed on the Moon a...

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The History of the Space Program is an episode from Lectures in History by C-SPAN. In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the USSR & US into a space race. Teasel Muir-Harmony of the Air & Space Museum chronicles th...

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Published Feb 2, 2026, 93:47 long, audio available.

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