Posted on May 23, 2013
At approximately 12:48 a.m. EST, the first listening stations began reporting that they had received radio signals from the “Explorer” satellite. The first station to confirm the signals was the San Gabriel Valley Amateur Radio Club near Pasadena, Ca...
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Tagged:Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Exploration, Explorer 1, History, Irbm, Jpl, Juno, Pickering, R 7, R7, Rocket, Russia, Sargent, Soviet, Space, Van Allen, Von Braun, Werner
Posted on July 4, 2013
“The designers made the Little Joe booster assembly to approximate the same performance that the Army’s Redstone booster would have with the capsule payload. But in addition to being flexible enough to perform a variety of missions, Little Joe could ...
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Tagged:Alan Shepard, Atlas, Capsule, Exploration, John Glenn, Little Joe, Lj 1, Lj 1a, Lj 1b, Lj 2, Lj 5, Lj 5a, Lj 5b, Lj 6, Max Faget, Max Q, Mercury, Mercury 7, Miss Sam, Nasa, Paul Purser, Redstone, Sam, Sargent, School Of Aviation Medicine, Space, Virgil Grissom, Wallops