12-page report titled “Project Vanguard – A Report on Progre - Lot 5

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12-page report titled “Project Vanguard – A Report on Progre - Lot 5
12-page report titled “Project Vanguard – A Report on Progress” by H. Cohen, Vanguard Quality Project Supervisor, Martin-Baltimore, undated (after May 1957 and before the first orbital attempt on December 6, 1957, detailing the program’s progress as well as the problems that still needed to be resolved). Vanguard was a small American launch vehicle developed by the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), whose objective was to place the first artificial satellite into orbit. However, after 9 failures out of 12 launches between 1956 and 1959, the Juno 1 launch vehicle was tasked with launching the first satellite into orbit—Explorer 1, launched on February 1, 1958—without calling the Vanguard program into question. On March 17, 1958, Vanguard finally achieved success with Vanguard 1, which became the second American satellite in orbit. All photos are from the archives of the public relations department of the Martin Company in Baltimore (which later became Martin-Marietta and then Lockheed-Martin). All documents are original Martin documents and are in black and white.
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