The United States Army launched Explorer 3, its second successful satellite launch in the Explorer program, on March 26, 1958. Explorer 1’s major accomplishment was the discovery of the Van Allen ...

Explorer 1 was front-page news across the U.S. The first successful U.S. satellite was often called a "moon" or a "man-made moon" then. American journalist and anchorman Walter Cronkite uses models to ...

Explorer 1, the first American satellite to successfully launch into orbit, did so from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex on January 31, 1958. It was the third successful orbiting satellite launch, ...

This image shows one of the Vanguard satellites being checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. Vanguard 1, the world’s first solar-powered satellite, launched on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, the U.S. Army made history when at 10:48 p.m. EST, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency launched a Jupiter C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying America's first satellite.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This artifact is one of several ...

The Navy launched yesterday morning a 21 1/2-pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on the earth. Strong signals were received from the satellite at several tracking ...