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Vanguard
Foreword
List of Illustrations
Preface
- Background of Space Exploration
- Seeking Government Support for a Satellite Program
- Selecting a Satellite Plan
- Getting the Launch Program Started
- Battle over Vehicle Specifications
- Role of NAS and TPESP, l955-l956
- Onboard Experiments and Instrumentation
- Creating a Home on the Range
- The Tracking Systems
- Early Test Firings
- From Sputnik I toTV-3
- Success - and After
- The NAS and the Scientific Harvest, 1957-1959
- The Final Accounting
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