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VON BRAUN OTHERS HOLDING EXPLORER I

VON BRAUN. OTHERS HOLDING EXPLORER I37
From left to right: Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of JPL; Dr. James Van Allen, a scientist from University of Iowa; and Dr. Wernher von Braun raise a full-size model of America's first satellite, Explorer I, above their heads following a successful launch on January 31, 1958.