The Day America Became A Spacefaring Nation
#OTD 31 January 1958 at 22:48 ET America launched its first satellite Explorer 1 into orbit and we became a spacefaring nation. https://t.co/Yryr3K5Oy6 #AdAstra
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 31, 2019
#OTD 31 January 1958 at 22:48 ET America launched its first satellite Explorer 1 into orbit and we became a spacefaring nation. https://t.co/Yryr3K5Oy6 #AdAstra
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 31, 2019
Does achievement of orbital flight define ‘spacefaring’? The US had launched equipment into space before. Or must we send something into space & back to properly be ‘spacefaring’?
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61 years… Amazing. How many folks who were alive on that day are still alive today?
[I originally had 60 years…I’ve misdated a check or two, too.] Perhaps by March I’ll accept the new year…]
I think he means orbit.
Well, at least one of us is still around. I remember that launch from the news