ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 2月1日 03時51分

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Sixty Years ago this evening (31 January 1958) the United States entered the space age with the successful launch of the Explorer I satellite. Known officially as Satellite 1958 Alpha, Explorer I launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Jupiter-C rocket, a direct descendant of a Second World War German A-4/V-2 rocket. These technologies were appropriated by U.S. Forces less than 13 years earlier from a V-weapon plant in Nordhausen, Germany. American engineers extracted not only hardware, but the brains behind the programme, amongst others, the rocket engineer Wernher von Braun. For fifteen years after the Second World War, von Braun worked with the U.S. Army at White Sands, New Mexico, developing ballistic missiles. In 1960, his rocket team transferred to the then newly established NASA and received a mandate to build the giant Saturn rockets and ultimately the Saturn V launch vehicle, the super-booster that would propel mankind to the Moon.
Here photographed, The Rocket Park at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA.

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