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Defenders of America, U.S. Army Explorer I In Orbit

Defenders of America, U.S. Army Explorer I In Orbit
Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95
Stock #:1100735
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Artist: Official U. S. Army Photograph
Publisher: National Bisquit Company
Size: 4" x 6" (10.25 x 15.25 cm)
Publisher's Series #: No. 23
Additional Details:
The U.S. Army Explorer I was launched into orbit on January 31, 1958, from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center. A modified Army Jupiter-C missile carried the 30.8 pound, 80-inch long Explorer satellite, the Free World's first, into an 18,000-mile-an-hour orbit to provide data for the 1958 International Geophysical Year research. This is No. 23 in the 1959 'Defenders of America' series from Nabisco.
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