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

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



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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:
The next day’s front-page news declared that the Unit­ed States was now offi­cial­ly in the Space Age.
Music: Look For­ward by Lau­rent Dury, The Space Between by Max Con­cors, Pick­ing Locks by James Alexan­der Dor­man and For­ag­ing At Dusk by Ben­jamin James Par­sons. Com­plete tran­script available.

This video is pub­lic domain and along with oth­er sup­port­ing visu­al­iza­tions can be down­loaded from the Sci­en­tif­ic Visu­al­iza­tion Stu­dio at: 

Cred­it: NASA’s God­dard Space Flight Center/LK Ward



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