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Explorer 1 60th Anniversary

Dr. John Meisenheimer, launch weather officer for Explorer 1, speaks to guests at an event celebrating the 60th anniversary of America's first satellite. The ceremony took place in front of the Space Launch Complex 26 blockhouse at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where the Explorer 1 satellite was launched atop a Jupiter C rocket on Jan. 31, 1958. During operation, the satellite's cosmic ray detector discovered radiation belts around Earth which were named for Dr. James Van Allen, principal investigator for the satellite.

Date
2018-01-31
Photographer / author
NASA/Kim Shiflett
Collection
KSC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Explorer 1 60th Anniversary" (2018-01-31). NASA/KSC/NASA/Kim Shiflett. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20180131-PH_KLS01_0134

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