Braun Series 7 Boxing Day
Just 56 days earlier, the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite had failed. This time, the Army Ballistic Missile AgencyÂ’s research team headed by Wernher von Braun, a former German rocket scientist, and their Director of the Development Operations Division, worked in conjunction with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to produce a modified Jupiter-C rocket that could carry Explorer I. The first U.S. space satellite, Explorer I, orbited the earth every 114 minutes at a maximum height of 2,000 miles and a minimum altitude of 230 miles. Its purpose was to measure cosmic radiation found in space and send the data back to earth; a scientific experiment of James A. Van Allen. Van Allen was the scientist who discovered the radiation belts that bear his name (the Van Allen Belt). 1927 - Twenty years before the famous record by Art Mooney was recorded, Jean Goldkette and his dancing orchestra recorded, IÂ’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. Though the name of the bandleader may not...