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The Satellite Sky
Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault on our national pride, even a threat to national security. Using news reels, commercials, television shows, government films, and science fiction movies, the film presents a uniquely impressionistic history of the early years of the Space Race.
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Other episodes for this season
![Lindbergh](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![Nixon (1): The Quest](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lzM0IrTpwdBNgAOFLM9erbZUnH3.jpg)
![Nixon (2): Triumph](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lzM0IrTpwdBNgAOFLM9erbZUnH3.jpg)
![Nixon (3): The Fall](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lzM0IrTpwdBNgAOFLM9erbZUnH3.jpg)
![God Bless America and Poland, Too](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![Insanity on Trial](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![The Satellite Sky](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![The Crash of 1929](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![The Iron Road](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![French Dance Tonight](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![After the Crash](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/gWnbCoAKJ5sBkK1WUCc2Ov4I0xh.jpg)
![Los Mineros](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![Coney Island](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![Love in the Cold War](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)