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Subject: Medals for cosmonauts - (nf) --> Army could have beat Sputnik?
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 02:23:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  5 02:23:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

>From what I heard, the story may be essentially true. Our government
underestimated the USSR space program, and took a glamorous course
instead of a crash effort. Sputnik jarred them into a crash effort and
they eventually switched from what they had been working on to the
other one (I forget which is which; Vanguard or Redstone?) which
worked nicely although the payload was tiny.

(Pardon tardy reply, I've been without terminal for 1.5 weeks until today.)