sentences:  Following the Air Force, Barbree began his broadcast journalism career at WALB in Albany, Georgia where, in 1957, he saw Sputnik's spent booster rocket orbiting in the sky and then wrote radio and TV reports about the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial satellite.Barbree was so interested in the space program that he paid for his own ticket to get to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1957 to watch the attempted Vanguard launch.The failed launch was one Barbree would never forget