IMAGE 0_99\48.Lbm,A model of the first US satellite Explorer 1, attached to the third stage of the Jupiter C rocket. It was launched on January 31, 1958.
IMAGE 600_699\654.Lbm,A model of the first US satellite Explorer 1, which went into orbit on January 31, 1958. It is displayed here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where it was built.
IMAGE 0_99\11.Lbm,Last-minute preparations being made on the pad at Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1958, for the launch on a Jupiter C rocket of the first US satellite, Explorer 1.
IMAGE 1700_99\727.Lbm,A Juno 1/Jupiter C rocket blasts off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1958, carrying Explorer 1, soon to become the first US satellite.
IMAGE 100_199\133.Lbm,After the successful launch of the first US satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958, key members of the project triumphantly hold aloft a model of the satellite. They are (from the left): William Pickering, James van Allen and Wernher von Braun.
