The space race
- Title
- The space race
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
- TX Date
- 3 Feb 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:02:15
- Description
- Norman Beebe reports on the space race, which the United States entered 20 years ago today with the launch of its first satellite into orbit. Recently, the Soviets’ Cosmos 954 was powered by a nuclear reactor and in view of general concerns about this, President Carter spoke at a news conference yesterday about the need for better safeguards.
- Contributors
- Jimmy Carter; Norman Beebe
- Keywords
- USSR; Jimmy Carter; Space exploration; Space; Nuclear safety; Spacecraft; Astronomy; Nuclear reactors; Artificial satellites; Cosmos 954; Nuclear engineering; Nuclear fuels
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