:01:11
The satellite which the Russians
have dubbed Sputnik...
:01:14
is being hailed
as a milestone in history.
:01:17
No one in our nation's capital
could deny that the satellite...
:01:19
has ushered in a grim
new chapter in the Cold War.
:01:22
And indeed,
a wave of national anxiety...
:01:25
already seems
to be sweeping the country.
:01:27
Still maintaining its speed
of 18,000 miles an hour...
:01:30
completing an orbit of the Earth
every 96 minutes.
:01:42
Dr. Wernher von Braun...
:01:44
Chief Engineer of the Army
Ballistic Missile Agency...
:01:47
expressed the hope
that the United States...
:01:49
would soon be following
the Russians into space...
:01:51
with our own
artificial satellite.
:01:53
Dr. von Braun confirmed
that there has still been...
:01:56
no actual sighting
of the Soviet satellite...
:01:58
but the U.S. expects
to be tracking it very soon.
:02:02
We are told that Sputnik will be
visible to the naked eye...
:02:04
about an hour after sunset
and an hour before dawn...
:02:08
as it traverses the October sky
over the United States.
:02:12
What the beeping signal means
we still don't know.
:02:15
Itmay be nothing more--
:02:38
Let's go, Roy Lee.
:02:40
It's almost 9:00.
:02:42
Sure are in a hurry
to get yourself killed.
:02:44
No kiddin'. There are easier
ways to commit suicide, Homer.
:02:48
Will you just step on it,
Roy Lee?
:02:50
I am steppin' on it.