(AP) — Ed Buckbee never forgot how the wiry little guy with the big round glasses shot out of The Daily Athenaeum newsroom like a rocket that day. On that October day in 1957, all of America — which included a handful of WVU journalism students working for their school paper in Morgantown found out that the Soviet Union had just conquered outer space. A satellite named Sputnik had successfully launched, and while the humble craft didn't do much but emit radio beeps while circling the Earth in low orbit, the USSR still got there before the U.S.