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Bill Nelson: “As a matter of fact, they had a big rocket and it blew up on the pad.”

On the recordApril 8, 2014
As a matter of fact, they had a big rocket and it blew up on the pad.
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Nelson discusses the historical context of U.S. and Soviet space competition.

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