Explorer 1 60th Anniversary
Launch team members who supported the launch of America's first satellite, Explorer 1, pose at a newly unveiled historical marker with Ray Sands, chairman of the Air Force Space and Missile Foundation -- sponsor of the marker, Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander and director of the Eastern Range, and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana. The event tool place at the site of the launch 60 years ago, Space Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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KSC-20180131-PH_KLS01_0136
Date Created
January 31, 2018
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KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Kim Shiflett
Location
Launch Complex 26; Air Space and
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