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NASA’s C-20A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve…
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…
