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Sputnik launch surprised Minnesota rocket designers 50 years ago

October 4, 2007

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While the U.S.S.R. got an early lead in the space race 50 years ago today, the United States had been working on it's own satellite-launching rocket project called Vanguard.

MPR's Tom Crann talked to one of the men who worked on the Vanguard project, George Fedor. He was a designer for the Honeywell Aero Division in Minneapolis.

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