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Vanguard 1 Has Been in Orbit For 66 Years!
On March 17th Vanguard 1 will have been in space for 66 years! Vanguardians had suffered through the failure of their first two attempts to launch a satellite. But they had the luck of the Irish on their third try. Here are clips from their celebration in 2008.
Wernher von Braun congratulated Milt Rosen who was in charge of the rocket development. Milt’s wife Sally showed me this document when I visited them in 2009.
In the great scheme of things, as the precursor of GPS, it was perhaps the most significant of the early satellites. Well done, pioneers.
Richard, I’m glad you took a photograph. Real evidence is the only history I trust. How else would we have known that Dr. von Braun eschewed the Oxford comma?