Explorer 1 Oral History Interviews
June 26th, 2010The JPL Archives staff selected four audio clips from interviews conducted with William Pickering, Al Hibbs, and Homer Joe Stewart to commemorate the success of Explorer 1; the first U. S. satellite following Sputnik. The U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency used a Jupiter C rocket to launch the satellite designed and built by JPL in just 3 months.