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Summary

The Jupiter C rocket and Explorer I satellite are presented to the National Air Museum by Secretary of the Army, Wilber M. Brucker on the first anniversary of the placing of the first American satellite into orbit.

Subject

  • Brucker, Wilber Marion 1894-1968
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • United States. Army

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1959, p. 142

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

January 31, 1959

Topic

  • Artificial satellites
  • Accessions
  • Rocketry
  • Special events

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