Jupiter C

[DemolitionMan]

American orbital launch vehicle. Re-entry vehicle test booster and satellite launcher derived from Redstone missile. The Jupiter A version of the Redstone missile was modified with upper stages to test Jupiter re-entry vehicle configurations. Von Braun's team was ordered to ballast the upper stage with sand to prevent any 'inadvertent' artificial satellites from stealing thunder from the official Vanguard program. Korolev's R-7 orbited the first earth satellite instead. The Jupiter C was retroactively named the 'Juno I' by Von Braun's team.

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[DemolitionMan]

The Jupiter C missile was the United States Army entry into the Intermediate Ballistic Missile field. President Eisenhower thought of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the Jupiter program was born. many Jupiters were located in Turkey until they were removed under the deal with the Russians in the Cuban Missile Crisis.



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