Space Race Time Line
Three men responsible for the Explorer 1 raise a model of the satellite at a 1958 press conference. (Left to right: William Pickering, James Van Allen, and Wernher von Braun)
Three men responsible for the Explorer 1 raise a model of the satellite at a 1958 press conference. (Left to right: William Pickering, James Van Allen, and Wernher von Braun)