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[i]It tells the story of John Stout, who as a young science whiz earned multiple degrees from Texas A&M, while also being ordained a minister. He was doing missionary work in Brazil in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite. Stout manually calculated exactly where and when Sputnik would pass overhead, and photographed the spacecraft. Stout's pictures made news and got him a job at the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA – in Houston. "Reverend Stout was a man of cloth, but he was also a man of science," space historian Robert Pearlman tells Colby. "His official role at NASA was as senior information scientist. But he was also a chaplain and fulfilling a spiritual role."[/i]
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