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Offline Joe Wooten

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America's First Satellite
« on: Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 09:59 am »
Explorer 1, launched 60 years ago today at 10:47 EST.

http://www.drewexmachina.com/2018/01/31/explorer-1-americas-first-satellite/



.....Corrected an error - somewhere along this week, I lost a day.......
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Offline Joe Wooten

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Re: America's First Satellite
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 10:01 am »
Actually, it could have been launched 2 years earlier, but political considerations by the Eisenhower administration prevented it.
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