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Explorer 1: How America's First Satellite Helped Create NASA
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Explorer 1: How America’s First Satellite Helped Create NASA

KS Rao & Team

February 1, 2018

On Jan. 31, 1958, at 10:48 p.m. EST, Explorer 1 launched into space, hurtling into Earth’s orbit in seven and a half minutes. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2nwic63
The next day’s front-page news declared that the United States was now…

Explorer 1: How America’s First Satellite Helped Create NASA

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