Brevard News
SPACE COAST DAILY TV: Celebrating 60 Years of U.S. Space Science, Birthed at Cape Canaveral
The stakes were high. Just months earlier, the Soviet Union successfully launched two Sputnik satellites, in October and November 1957. That December, news media were invited to witness the launch of a U.S. satellite on a Navy Vanguard rocket, but it exploded seconds after liftoff. […]
