CBS News - Sputnik - 1957-10-06
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[0:13] thank you
[0:15] CBS Television presents a special report
[0:18] on Sputnik 1 the Soviet space satellite
[0:21] Douglas Edwards reporting
[0:23] until two days ago that sound had never
[0:26] been heard on this Earth suddenly it has
[0:28] become as much a part of 20th century
[0:30] life as the where of your vacuum cleaner
[0:33] it's a report from man's farthest
[0:35] Frontier the radio signal transmitted by
[0:37] the Soviet Sputnik the first man-made
[0:40] satellite as it passed over New York
[0:42] earlier today right now it's over
[0:44] Auckland New Zealand according to the
[0:46] latest Soviet announcement the satellite
[0:48] is still maintaining its speed of 18 000
[0:50] miles an hour needing no resistance 560
[0:54] miles out in Space the Russians Say
[0:56] it'll be joined by another very shortly
[0:58] and there will be advance notice this
[1:00] time
[1:00] what the Sputnik signal means we still
[1:03] don't know the Russians haven't said
[1:05] anything about that our own experts
[1:07] haven't found any coded information in
[1:09] it the sound may be no more than a means
[1:11] of identification a way to keep track of
[1:13] the beach ball-sized metal sphere as it
[1:16] hurdles around the world 16 times every
[1:19] day a dozen times faster than any man
[1:21] has ever flown the event itself the
[1:24] sudden Russian advance to the far
[1:26] Frontier ahead of every other country
[1:27] that event is full of meanings clearest
[1:30] of all the scientists whose work is the
[1:33] exploration of space
[1:34] while the places where the progress of
[1:36] the satellite is being watched most
[1:38] closely is the Hayden planetarium in New
[1:40] York CBS News correspondent Richard C
[1:42] hotel at reports from there now
[1:46] Doug we're in