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The launch of Explorer 1 on Jan. 31, 1958, initiated six decades of groundbreaking scientific discovery and human exploration that…
An ecologist, a volcanologist, and a chemist walk into a forest… it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke,…
Explorer 1 was big news in 1958. The U.S. reaction to the Soviet Sputnik launches in 1957 had been “hysteria,”…
The Explorer 1 satellite weighed 30 pounds and was just 80 inches long. Today, the International Space Station is one…
The Explorer 1 satellite was launched on a Jupiter-C rocket. With the Explorer 1 satellite, the rocket and payload were…
Explorer 1 was the first U.S. satellite. But it wasn’t launched with the sole purpose of seeing if our nation…
In the early days of space exploration, the best mechanical computers were large (the size of a room) and not…
