Explorer 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Jupiter C rocket on January 31, 1958 at 10:48 p.m. EST. The JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Ballistic Agency coordinated the launch as NASA did not exist until October 1958.
The Jupiter C rocket was based on Germany's V-2 rockets, which were developed and used to bomb London during World War II.
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I guess these ladies are "analog biological computers"?
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